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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made. Last few tips.

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The Ice Bucket Challenge Epilogue: Data

3rd Sector Labs

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Wow – that’s a problem almost every nonprofit would like to have, right? Let me offer one piece of advice: let’s not get distracted by the story and instead focus on the epilogue – the Ice Bucket Epilogue: it’s about the data.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Venture capitalists would refer to its state as stealth mode. It's a security cloud service that will address this problem: Most IT systems are fortressed. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. Everything. Illumio.com — is not launched yet. Please log in and tell us.

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

Tech Soup

In fact, we don’t see it at all, really, which is part of the problem. According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services. Casting Digital Shadows: What Is It, Really, and Remind Me Why I Care?

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Six Tips to Help You Select the Right Learning Management System

Gyrus

In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. will be a problem if you just let your employees learn on their own. A bit of research and evaluation on vendor’s clientele, services, customer references can be few additional items to keep in mind.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S.

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