Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. Technorati Tags: digital.quilt , net2 , nptech , npo , ict , tagging , taxonomy

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. Laura Quinn outlines the process of how a folksonomy be developed into a taxonomy: "So for instance, because it's so easy for users to tag things with free-form keywords, let them do so. Sort of an emergent taxonomy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

When Twitter first launched it did not have a search function, so to be able to have conversations via Tweets beyond Replies, hashtags were necessary. Nonprofit : Occasionally, you can replace the word “nonprofit&# with “#nonprofit&# in a Tweet, or tag it on to the end of Tweet that mentions a nonprofit or nonprofit trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Jason at DIA tagged it with this note: "The most universal piece of advice about using social networks for fundraising and friendraising is to start small." It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Deborah Finn has written a SEO primer called " Search Engine Optimization for Nervous Nonprofit Novices " and she is seeking feedback from SEO mavens. No problem, I dug into the NpTech + Digg tag archives and pulled out this terrific Beginner's Guide To Digg. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Where I rail against web shops that continue to suggest that people use their CMS, when it’s just not possible for one shop to replicate the robustness, features, security and upgradeability of the Open Source CMS offerings. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. 4) Blackbaud Buys Kintera. 8) What is Cloud Computing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. SpyBot Search & Destroy — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Tags: Software. But that’s why it’s free.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. Details are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. Google Blog Search. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." I bet if one searched flicker you might come up with some more photos to add. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Marnie Webb (who appears to be blogging a bit more these days since she switched to a MAC ) tagged an interesting article from the Wall Journal that asks " Is there a numerical cap on how many friends we can have? The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase! And if you???re

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

Additions: Photos, wikis, video, search, email notifications, and chat. Additions: Photos, video, search, and a chat add-on widget. While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. www.groupsite.com.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). They originally wanted to organize a conference to convene social innovators and social entrepreneurs on the nonprofit tech cutting edge to see what everyone was doing. What Is Web 2.0?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. So, why shouldn't our information, data, actions, and search happen in real time as well? More and more, now we can.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

As readers of this blog probably know, I’m really excited about the work Social Actions is doing to help connect the sources of actions and opportunities across the web to push them further. Social Actions is “an open source database of actions people can take on any issue. Connect & Learn more.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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See3

JUNE 22, 2009

He would aggregate individual nonprofit actions and opportunities for change from many sources. That way, someone could search a central database by where they lived, or what issues they were interested in, and they would find ways to make a difference. He called this Social Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

of a gallery case that has a “gap” in the art, includes the dimensions of the gap, and asks the public to search its online catalogue for ideas. Participants search for pieces on the Luce Center’s website - it has 41,000 cataloged pieces of art on its website - and suggest replacement pieces from the catalogue.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services. Technorati Tags: Global Development Commons. Tags: Strategy. In our view these ? ,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. " I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. ll search my own blog to get that reference." I have one blog post here. moment about something, I???ll ll blog it.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Audacity (open source software for Windows, Linux, or Mac) and Garage Band (Mac only) are two of the most common tools podcasters use. When encoding your mp3 file, two important considerations are the ID3 tags and the bit rate. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

SEO and Online Visibility SEO Tools: Prioritize platforms that offer built-in SEO tools, including meta tags, keyword optimization, and sitemap generation. Effective SEO features enhance online visibility, improving search engine rankings. Can your nonprofit swing that price tag? There are no nonprofit discounts at this time.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 9, 2009

When you search for your issue among the posts, you typically find nothing but posts from others with the same issue but no solutions. Can’t check email and you run to Twitter search to confirm that others are having the same problem. Tags: Geek Posts Chrome OS Google GoogleApps. For most products, it doesn’t exist.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Open-Source Tools. Open Data Kit helps you collect and manage data through a mobile app that works offline. Open Function is an automated data integration tool that connects anything to anything (think Internet of things sensors connected to water pumps in mines). Accounting. Web Outreach.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Plus, high-quality, educational blog content can also improve your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, pushing your blog to the top of search results and earning your website more traffic. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Kind of like if Ning , Google Talk , Gmail , Twitter and Facebook got smooshed together into a single open source environment. Gmail focused on simplicity first (great spam filtering, super fast search, conversation grouping) and then along came Labs years later to make it all interesting and wiz-bang.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2017

Websites use trackers and cookies to learn where you are located, what other websites you visited, what products you bought, and what keyword searches you made. Remember that when people tag you, this information is shared with their contacts as well as yours. While surfing the web, you are unknowingly sharing information. Absolutely!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. another person Vicki tagged was Doug Johnson , author of the Indispensable Teacher's Guide To Computer Skills. It is also becomes my muse and a key source of inspiration. Flickr photo from AussieGal.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 3, 2024

Consent mode is a feature in Google Ads that allows you to adjust how your Google tags behave based on the consent status of your users, enabling Google to model for gaps in conversions. AI Rise of Search Generated Experience (SGE) as new chat-first way to find answers will hurt organic traffic for most.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Delicious is an online bookmarking system that makes it easy for you to "tag" websites of interest and save them on a single webpage. We can surf each others' bookmarks, and if we choose a shared tag for a project, then anyone can search Delicious for that tag and see all bookmarks related to that project.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The directory should provide intuitive navigation and enable users to discover sites based upon both text-based and faceted search. DHS should partner with commercial companies and government agencies to provide a consolidated portal for citizen reporting zero day vulnerabilities in both proprietary and open source code.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us and tag my links, I contribute content to a number of sites, including H20 Playlist. Hallmarks of Web 2.0 applications every day.

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