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). Make no mistake, we are for the Internet, we are for jobs, we are for legal access to content, and we are for human rights and freedom of speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. tools and websites. the crackdown on web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Unlike 10 years ago, when Web communication was limited to websites and email, today nonprofits also have access to blogs, social networks, video and photo-sharing sites, texting, and smartphone and tablet apps – and which tools your supporters use to access your nonprofit online is often directly related to their age and sometimes class and race.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 25, 2011

If you measure by surveying publicly accessible websites, you get Linux first at 41%-74%, Windows second at 20-42% and proprietary UNIX third at 2-5%?. source: wikipedia ). It would make sense to me that the true number is much closer to the estimation by publicly accessible websites, rather than the unit sales estimation.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Microsoft Power BI – Wikipedia. Amplitude (company) – Wikipedia. Mixpanel – Wikipedia. API : An application programming interface (API) is a set of rules and protocols that developers can use to access data and functionality from an external system. Price : Depends on usage, has a free option.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund reframed traditional MEL language, outlining a MEL Framework guided by three core organizational values: participatory collaboration, accessible language and understanding, and collective feedback (all of which are explained in their framework).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Wikipedia , “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.” Suddenly, something available to only elites was accessible to all of us. (I wonder if Randy has a crystal ball up there somewhere in Nebraska?!)

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Zuckerberg has partnered with Samsung, Nokia, Opera, and others to bring more affordable web access by way of smartphones. At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. Right from analyzing the skills required, sourcing the right learning material, checking its authenticity, easy access, to measurement and tracking, etc. and get informed on just anything.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

And while I don't have a smartphone myself, I do have an iPod touch that I used to access websites while on maternity leave. First, go to one of my favorite sites - Wikipedia. Wikipedia will sense that you are using a mobile device and will automatically display the version of the site that is optimized for mobile.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. Today, many libraries have adopted a hybrid approach in providing access to information in which the physical institution anchors a complementary digital collection. In fact, accessibility is the biggest pull for the digitization of anything these days, right?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

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? check out Me and My Shadow’s Flipcards.

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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. Like every library, members can check out all sorts of books, allowing them access to new worlds for themselves in whatever direction they choose to turn. at its core. Library 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

The solution is 100% remote but with a human-first approach – all barriers of traditional production are broken down since you’re no longer tied to accessibility, schedule, and resources to capture employee activations and CSR initiatives. . updating relevant Wikipedia pages. . Global Volunteer Programs.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

IP3 is a nonprofit social venture founded by Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES), a center at the University of Missouri that makes public data more accessible by turning it into visualizations. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Starting in the mid-1990s, telecenters provided a relatively quick and measurable way (# computers bought, # people trained) to show change in access (digital divide) and capacity building (Microsoft UP). Telecenters helped “prime the pump” in areas of ICT access market-failure.

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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. When telling your story with data, look outside your own data set to find other data that makes your story more accessible - puts it in context.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. You choose who has access to create or modify content, and because each version of a page on Wikispaces is saved, users can compare versions or go back to a previous version for reference. Wikispaces : Wikis are a new type of website that allows multiple people to add or modify content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

– Wikipedia. Data encryption translates data into another form, or code, so that only people with access to a secret key (decryption key) or password can read it. – Wikipedia. NTEN: Restoring Trust in the Nonprofit Sector with Blockchain. Social Media Week: The Essential Guide to Blockchain for Brands.

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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.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using varied Unix-based databases since then (as well as others including Access and Filemaker Pro), and most have been open source. You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. So here is my current survey of the landscape.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Data, Open Education, and Open Access for Development. Toronto, Ontario: How to Develop and Deliver an Effective Pitch. Seattle, Washington. HR Essentials for the Accidental HR Manager. 501 Connects. Wednesday, July 15, 2015.

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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. When telling your story with data, look outside your own data set to find other data that makes your story more accessible - puts it in context.

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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. When telling your story with data, look outside your own data set to find other data that makes your story more accessible - puts it in context.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. But, we also need to remember that many people do not have access to this web 2.0 world whether through disability, illiteracy, or poverty.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. In particular it describes his solution for allowing simultaneous multiuser access to the sheets. Considering Dan invented the entire idea of the electronic spreadsheet as we know it, we'd be fools not be interested. Take a look.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Once the demographic information populates you’ll gain access to audience insights. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page. Navigating around the data is easy, but requires admin and advertiser level permissions for your organization’s Facebook page.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

I know what you’re thinking: I have no idea what a QR code is and that link to the Wikipedia article isn’t going to cut it. So when folks are out and about, they can quickly and easily access that information. So, allow me to take a moment to explain what I’m talking about. blog earlier this year.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

While current trends in film length make me dubious of this trend’s overall power, O’Reilly observes that short-format content is more accessible, more searchable, and most importantly, well-suited to collaborative work. application like MySpace or Wikipedia. On Wikipedia? Think about potlucks from the 2.0 Social connectiveness?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. This is the most vulnerable access point for the majority of illicit log-in instances.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Furthermore, all of the vendors should commit to a policy that if the front-end or API is unable to download or connect to their data- typically because of performance problems- then the vendor should provide the data or access for free. at 3:23 am I think your definition of SaaS is aspirational rather than factual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. There is controlled access.

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