Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

First, what’s a web-inar? Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. We’ll cover social bookmarking, tagging, RSS and more, plus the tools you can start using for free to do it all. More Information and Register Now! How you can join.

Social Media 100

Social Media NTEN Build Bookmarking 100

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0

Netsquared 52

Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. The amazing thing about the web is what we can do with those impulses, stories, and gifts. the web creates visible real-time reputations. the web collapses distance and set up costs. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google.

Gift 108

Gift Wikipedia Case Study Facilitation 108

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.). 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.

Kintera 100

Kintera Wikipedia Open Source Blackbaud 100

NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

Web 73

Web Examples Time Action 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. What is Web 2.0 by Iulian Commanescu The definitions are fluid when it comes to Web 2.0. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Conclusion.

Romania 50

Romania Foundation Web Sponsor 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. So sure, let's talk about tagging.

Tag 40

Tag Bookmarking Delicious Folksonomy 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Green Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. NpTech Talk.

Nptech 50

Nptech Summary Tag YouTube 50

Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2010

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. Tools Web 2.0 Tags: Event Online Seminar Web 2.0 This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Space is limited so RSVP today !

Wiki 43

Wiki Collaboration Free Wikipedia 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 For me, the web and 2.0 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. public information???

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Reference Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

Wikipedia 43

Wikipedia Open Source Library Knowledge 43

Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Forum One held two roundtable discussions in Seattle in the past couple of weeks on global health web communications as well as data collection, management, and dissemination. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations. ” The group had a few ideas that seem genuinely worth exploring (which we’ll discuss more at another time).

Seattle 41

Seattle Global Wikipedia Aggregator 41

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. It’s really worth a read. at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

Chapter 100

Chapter Network Open Source Wikipedia 100

Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. Wikipedia is the most obvious answer, but is it really ready to be a primary resource in children's education? Photo: Bright Tal.

Wikipedia 43

Wikipedia Library PDF History 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. I started thinking about how a lot of the online collaboration was taking place on the social web is between people who had never met each other and after they work together may meet each other. Tags: network effectiveness.

Offline 92

Offline Collaboration Network Online 92

NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? Some are huge.

Knowledge 86

Knowledge Share Network Community 86

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. Tags: Chafee Bookshare. Bookshare started as the sharing of copyrighted and public domain books in a central repository authorized by the Chafee Amendment by people with print disabilities for their own use. at its core.

Library 100

Library National India Wikipedia 100

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. The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic.

Screencast 50

Screencast Analytics Measure Web 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Sure, they need both, but take a guess which one is a more compelling read. So what's next?

Museum 20

Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. Tags: friendfeed.

Slides 50

Slides Ratio Wikipedia Stream 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Tags: ROI. Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Take a look.

Blackboard 40

Blackboard AJAX Wikipedia Wiki 40

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Search engines constantly scour the web for information using this method -- but bots are also used by those nasty folks on the web that like to steal your information or trash your website. leads to malware installation.

Professional 40

Professional China Script Search 40

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

Also, we are hosting gatherings for Bay Area nonprofit and web innovators interested in connecting communities for social change the second Tuesday of every month. Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. Our goal is to create a gallery of case studies that will provide inspiration and information for other nonprofits.

Netsquared 40

Netsquared Case Study Aggregator Wikipedia 40

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And as web-enabled mobile devices gain popularity, actual computers may become less and less important to the information economy, but monthly fees won't. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

Digital 74

Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Whether those collaborations take the form of the set of Amazon book reviews that affect your purchasing or the development of wikipedia entries, short-format contributions can be quickly assembled into a reasonable composite. application like MySpace or Wikipedia. On Wikipedia? Tags: web2.0 Social connectiveness?

Model 20

Model Wikipedia Myspace Museum 20

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S.

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Open Language 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S.

Open Source 100

Open Source Database Open Language 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag! Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0

Netsquared 50

Netsquared Nptech Summary Project 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

tags: listening socialmedia ). There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. Tags: listening. Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Here's a few: Bloglines. Google Reader.

Literacy 51

Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0 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. Tags: web2.0 being based on a simple premise: software that gets better the more people use it.

Museum 20

Museum People San Francisco Oakland 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. But the most heated battles seem to be focused on the perceived divide between those obsessed with Web 2.0 To many people, the culture of Web 2.0 we have to work first on establishing a culture that makes Web 2.0

Culture 20

Culture Wikipedia Application Digg 20

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

2) it is written in a way that makes it unclear how it can apply to newer forms of redistributable work - such as web-services. (3) Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented. Tags: nptech , FOSS , GPL

Open Source 40

Open Source Open License Copyright 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more.

Wiki 50

Wiki Technorati RSS Nonprofit 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

If we number the five elements as follows: Content Interaction Network Social Benefit Collective Action then I’d argue that most museums provide something very different from Web 2.0: side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. But now, web usage is different.

Taxonomy 20

Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20