Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

There are two types of media we will look at here: direct and indirect content. Direct Content. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Indirect Content.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. "Similar to their corporate counterparts, nonprofits are discovering that they can increase their effectiveness while maintaining lower operating costs by utilizing Web-based and open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Docurated.com — is a cloud-based document search firm that allows users to find a specific chart, slide, collateral, or piece of content without opening any documents. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. It addresses the rising cost of information overload and retrieval.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift There is another post called " The Future of Open Business " riffing off the recent Times Magazine article which defined the Gift Economy : People who are creating OpenSource Software on a volunteer basis. open???, ???free???

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. The door is open a crack: five percent of the books needed by people with print disabilities are now available in digital formats, including digital text and digital Braille. at its core. Library 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

What do we do with content that is controversional and, potentially, uncomfortable? According to Wikipedia , 20 million people have viewed a Bodyworlds exhibition. Turns out people LOVE seeing dead, cut open people, love it enough to wait on lines and pay big ticket fees. Exhibitions that shock, incite, and disturb.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

To coincide with the launch of the new Office, Microsoft has also opened the doors to the Office Store. Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. Read more about them in Microsoft's Bing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Niche content. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. User generated content - Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

If you want to learn more about vector graphics, this Wikipedia article can give you a broader understanding of how they work. Change the font to Open Sans Light , 15 pt , and Smooth anti-aliasing. Bonus: We chose 1,200 as the pixel value because it's the maximum width for content on Facebook and Twitter. What We Learned.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

If you want to learn more about vector graphics, this Wikipedia article can give you a broader understanding of how they work. Change the font to Open Sans Light , 15 pt , and Smooth anti-aliasing. Bonus: We chose 1,200 as the pixel value because it's the maximum width for content on Facebook and Twitter. What We Learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. Eugene said at the beginning that he would not be sharing any confidential information and that everything is open. The first time open-ended, playful like being on a social network. Eugene said not to focus on the content. We knew what was coming.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. The tech jargon (sorry, I tried): with the Winter release, Convio's Open API will support the Access-Control-Allow-Origin response header. You guessed it, they'll go straight to 2012.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. NpTech Community. Freecharity.org.uk

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

From closed content to open-source forums. The Web showed that one way to keep a content delivery platform current is to involve its users as meaningful participants rather than passive recipients of that content. static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor's President and co-CEO, commented: 'Wikipedia, DeanSpace, MoveOn, Firefox Campaign, craigslist - none of these succeeded because they had faster servers or fatter pipes than anyone else. They succeeded because they understood and enabled the power of user-generated content and the power of peer networking.' 'Web-based

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. If your organization is based in the UK, the ICT Hub Unmet Needs Fund is now open for applications.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

United States lawmakers are considering two bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) , that post a threat to the openness of the web around the Globe. In the last six years, we’ve produced more than 75,000 posts that link to blogs and other citizen content for readers in over 20 languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Since the 1970s, children's museums of this experiential, open-ended type have exploded, out-pacing other types of museums in new construction projects and venues. Bob’s job is to set up and support “wired” schools and school districts.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. You can use it as a classic wiki; but I've seen how some small organizations have used it as a poor man's content management system for their main web site. a month to create and maintain your own wiki site!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

" Some commenters suggest that bells and whistles are mostly for early adopters who can build a lot of buzz and help a site reach critical mass, although clever functionality is not a replacement for good content. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If the new web is about a spirit of openness and sharing how do you incorporate a group of people into the process who have historically shared to the point of exploitation? Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Be personal.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. It also has a “Charities and NGOs” section. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Make your potential vendor prove they are open to data imports and exports without having to purchase expensive additional APIs. Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? The best arent afraid to share brand, content and promotion with their supporters.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

But when you see it flying, unfettered in the open sky, you’ll undoubtedly think it is one of the most beautiful sights you’ll ever witness. All who were involved agreed that intervention was needed to save the condor, but what kind of intervention became a point of bitter contention. It’s the largest flying bird in North America.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Content strategy. Social media has opened up a new, extra-wide avenue to raise awareness about fundraising on behalf of a nonprofit. Another way we try to encourage exploration is by offering the user content filters so they can take a “choose your own adventure”-type path through the site (see Figure 4). User research.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

application I employ, it's also a powerful and graceful example of the potential of disaggregated content. Google Homepage is a personalized landing page for the content that is most useful to you. On the left, you can see personal content: my Gmail inbox, the Google documents I'm working on, and my del.icio.us So what is it?

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