Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The presenter gave the example of a cable TV installer who goes to homes to turn on cable services. Capriza Zapps can also connect to things like barcode scanners, Google Maps, and other outside devices and services. You just search like you would on Google. It requires no API and no coding. via search to end-users. Everything.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

For example, what strategies would you use if your goal is to build your brand and grow your audience online? Backlinks, according to Google , are one of the top 3 search ranking factors. of all newly published pages will get to Google Top 10 within a year. The best way to measure that growth is with Google Analytics.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Wearables have been around a long time; an example would be hearing aids or the Sony Walkman. Another example is the Philips Lifeline gadget from late night TV commercial fame in which an elderly person wears a monitor that calls 911 if they fall down. Google Glass Explained. While Google Glass. Where Wearables Came From.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Everything else is just noise.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

According to Wikipedia, or Nielsen Norman Group, an Evidence-Based User Experience Research Firm, responsive web design is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop webpages to be viewed in response to the size of the screen or web browser one is using to view a website or webpage. What is responsive web design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. I've created a topic on Google Moderator where people can submit and vote on ideas. I've never used Google Moderator, but someone told me that it's good, so hopefully it works :). No exceptions. Don't contact me.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2. And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. Why Is Online Collaboration Green?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Kansas City, Missouri: Google for Nonprofits — Technology, Education, and Networking. Austin, Texas: National Council of Nonprofits — Google+ Hangout. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. HTML EXAMPLE. Toronto, Ontario: Free Webinar: Social Media for Nonprofits. Saturday, March 21, 2015.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Morrisville, North Carolina: Deep Dive into Google Analytics. Austin, Texas: Google Digital Inclusion Fellowship — NTEN, Skillpoint, and Austin Free-Net. HTML EXAMPLE Image: Social Media Surgery : Tannis Sullivan / CC BY-NC 2.0. -->.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” 3) Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking. Oh, memories.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Gave Daily Kos, Little Green Footballs, Huffington Post, and Tech Crunch as examples of blogs with ecosystems. Conclusion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. For example, we (DonorPerfect Online), use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for the database engine. And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Beth Kanter, Examples of How Listening Returns Value for Nonprofit Organizations. Google Reader. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Google Alerts. Google Alerts. Beth Kanter, Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Here's a few: Bloglines. Add a RSS feed to your reader.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Every person who clicks on a Google search result, rates a movie on Netflix, or adds a photo to Flickr improves the overall experience for subsequent users. The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. Young Einstein.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

For example, if your organization provides rent and utilities assistance and you have had a steep rise in requests for help, you could pitch a story about the crisis of middle class people falling into poverty. Give some examples from your organization’s work, protecting the privacy of everyone involved. Instead, focus on the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! An example? Another example. Here's an example from the Red Cross. So, now is the fun part. The power of Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Dr. Shulman offers the great example of doctors, relating a comment from a surgeon that, “’Internists make a diagnosis in order to act. Was this the right decision? Narratively, this makes sense.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign. It should be noted that Google has more than five million instances of websites using the phrase “social enterprise.”

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. ” Let’s take the phrase, “ how to donate a car ,” as an example. According to Google Adwords , “ how to donate a car ” shows an estimated 1,000 monthly searches.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

People are not choosing museums over google when they need to find something out, regardless of how trustworthy we are. On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

There are tons of #GivingTuesday guides, playbooks, toolkits, examples and stories so we decided to try to summarize some of the best Giving Tuesday ideas we’ve seen as well as adding our own. Create a public calendar invite on Google (and others) to remind your audience to take action on Giving Tuesday. Timebox it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

Google Homepage is a rare exception. 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. Here's how to make it happen: Go to [link] and sign into Google (or create an account).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

I’m sure we could find even older examples if we tried hard enough, but that’s not the point. A quick glance at the term “content marketing” on Google trends will shed some light on how hot. Show us some examples in the comments or ask any questions you might have. But before we get into the details, a simple definition.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

Wikipedia defines a mashup as, "a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool." So, for example, MAPLight.org brings together campaign contribution data and legislators' voting records to raise awareness about the connection between money and politics.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Here are some examples of cognitive bias, and how our organization has dealt with them. For years, VolunteerMatch grew by providing users with Google-like tools to search, segment, slice, and dice our volunteer opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. a conference).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. Something he terms hypermimesis (which if you google can mean morning sickness ) but means that these behaviors can be replicated quickly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

For example, see Plan Asia’s Flavors Page at flavors.me/planasia. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome. Google Chrome is a free web browser for Windows XP, Vista, and 7. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience.

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