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Wiki Syntax madness

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Wiki Syntax madness November 26, 2007 As most people deeply imbedded in Web 2.0, I am an avid Wiki user. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host.

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Tools I use: Personal Web Presence

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Dokuwiki – my woefully neglected and out of date technology wiki is on Dokuwiki. It’s a wiki, but everything is stored in files instead of a database. The annoying part is that it is one more wiki markup to learn (I wish SOMEONE would finally agree to make a wiki markup standard!!).

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Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Please use open file formats (PDF is fine).

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Addressing Accessibility in Social Media

NTEN

As non-profit organizations, your sites likely have the added complexity of tying this data to a constituent database. Pay particular attention to dynamic lookup fields, particularly when utilizing a constituent database. To create these accounts, sites frequently make use of registration forms.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. This report is not just your father’s PDF file!

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

By Steve Backman, President, Database Designs To close out our month-long look at some of the best tools for nonprofits, Steve Backman tells you about some of his favorite day-to-day software. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Here are my categories and choices.

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