Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Today, we're joining what is probably the largest online protest in history , by blacking out significant portions of the Benetech website, as well as our Martus and HRDAG human rights websites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 21, 2011

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. But then, Google enters the fray, in a bigger way that just with Android. The Google eBookstore ! Google decided to go with the ePub format for their bookstore, with Adobe DRM. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

So, Google strives to present a comprehensive picture of your company to ensure that users make informed decisions. Among other things, brand SERPs include the most important pages on your site, your most recent social activity, your Wikipedia page (if you have one), and the latest news stories about your company.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Google Mobile :: google.com/mobile. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. It is a must download!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 30, 2010

And Wikipedia Tabs? That didn’t seem likely, so I went to Google to search “Arbor Day Facebook&#. My first thought: Hmmm… the logo is weird on all the Pages. Oh… so this is what a Community Page looks like. And yes, in fact they do an have an official Page with 4,385 Likes: www.facebook.com/arborday.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

That said, please also see public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months when planning your campaigns. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2017 and 2018 editorial calendars. 15: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Search engines like Google and Bing will often be your first stop when you have a question. Get more out of Google by using its advanced search techniques. Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. Plus, we've got some techniques we recommend that are useful for targeted searches.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Podcasting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). 6) Google Analytics vs. Sitemeter. Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008! 2) Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on July 27th.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

If only Wikipedia had an entry cataloguing Brett's email references!). Because he often sits mesmerized by the live Google stats for the website. If cute animals weren't the hook, Brett was always right there, waiting for you, with a Star Wars reference. (If Curious if other readers have taken the link bait yet? Brett knows.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. When you move to the web, you have increasing returns to scale , but the number of people involved to affect the increasing returns are at a much larger scale (many more people, etc.). Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled. network, horizontal.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Capriza Zapps can also connect to things like barcode scanners, Google Maps, and other outside devices and services. Patrick White, CEO of Synata, likened it to Google Now , which knows where you are and where you need to be, and reminds you of relevant information. You just search like you would on Google.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Lots of folks at the event were wearing Google Glass , the newest innovation in eyeglasses. Most attendees were Android app developers who are interested in getting into Glassware , the app development platform for Google Glass. Google Glass functions like smartphones in that apps can be built on top of it to extend and enhance it.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

In order to find individuals who exhibit propensity, affinity, and capacity markers, you’ll need to comb through and organize a lot of data.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

40-50,000 Google searches are made per second. And that’s just Google – 3.5 Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? Per second. That’s roughly three. queries per minute, and more than 3.5. billion online searches a day are only attributed to one search engine, not accounting for Bing, Yahoo!, Ask, AOL or any other search engines.

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Forj

MARCH 7, 2018

Let’s face it, most all of us turn to Google to verify facts and learn something new. Our ability to find what we need to learn on the Internet is ubiquitous; so much so that 70% of employees will turn to Google before their company learning files*. Wikipedia ? This format of learning has spawned the microlearning movement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to those listed below, see also international public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Days. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your editorial calendar. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The first generation in human history who regard behaviors like tweeting and texting, along with websites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Wikipedia as everyday parts of their social lives and their search for understanding.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

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. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page. A study by Ahrefs found that only 5.7%

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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See3

JANUARY 14, 2008

Take a minute now to Google yourself and all of your top staff or consultants. I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Here it is.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. And be sure and check out the great online video, Google Docs in Plain English. Online Project Management Tools.

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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. Toronto, Ontario: Free Webinar: Social Media for Nonprofits. Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Vancouver, Canada: June 4: Maximizing your Google Grants budget for Nonprofits. Baltimore, MD: June Tech & Social Change Baltimore Meetup: Wikipedia. Honolulu, HI: Hack to the future with Code for Hawaii. Boston, MA: National Day of Civic Hacking - RHoK Boston. New Haven, CT: SeeClickFix Hackathon. Tuesday, June 4. Friday, June 7.

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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. HR Essentials for the Accidental HR Manager. 501 Connects. Wednesday, July 15, 2015.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. If all webpages were PubSubHubbub enabled, for example, they could simply tell a Hub about any changes they had published and Google could find out via that Hub. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. A nice little utility that lets you embed google mymaps into your blog. Via LifeHacker , does google analytics make you say huh? Britt Bravo covers it here. Looking for a primer? Check this slideshow.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

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. Some are successful, but messy. The nonprofit technology community is a robust knowledge sharing network widely dispersed across many blogs, tweets, discussion boards, Facebook walls, etc.

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