Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Because we know that TechSoup may not be able to answer all of your really specific technology questions, here are some of our favorite sites. Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. It has helpful, succinct articles like The Difference Between CRM and ERP. Finding Quick Technology Answers Beyond TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Here’s how I did it: First, I began by publishing a blog post with a content offer that was relevant to the article. Not only does it condense the article into a 2-minute read, but this checklist doubles the value by offering 7 bonus strategies not found in the post. Is the layout of your site overwhelming?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry. Password hackers are using some new tactics to break into your online accounts.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

And then there are all the articles, blogs, and videos that my Facebook contacts post every day. Here's an article posted by Amy Luckey at GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) that talks about the use of collaborative web tools to strengthen the relationships between funders and organizations. Grantmaking 2.0

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. Speak With Numbers Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2011

There was a QR code printed on the ticket which, when scanned by my QR code reader on my smartphone, took me to a fabulous little site which included the seating plan for luncheon, the luncheon program, the video that was shown at the beginning of the lunch, and links to the NPWF twitter feed and Facebook profile. blog earlier this year.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

Recently, I’ve become a big fan of the Word Spy site , or, more accurately the Word Spy twitter feed , which highlights new words and phrases (e.g., The point of adding information to Wikipedia is to give information seekers more information. Take a cue from Wikipedia on this one, and check out your content.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

Recently, I’ve become a big fan of the Word Spy site , or, more accurately the Word Spy twitter feed , which highlights new words and phrases (e.g., The point of adding information to Wikipedia is to give information seekers more information. Take a cue from Wikipedia on this one, and check out your content.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. NetSquared DC's Roshani Kothari on why she loves NetSquared. I've just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin and I'm pumped! Asia and Pacific Rim. Tuesday, March 24, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns. " One of my favorite examples was the Muppet Wiki Here's what Daniela had to say: Established on 5 December 2005, Muppet wiki is a collaborative site about the Muppets and their creator, Jim Henson. Maybe I missed it or perhaps there is a good reason why. That's a start. Whether you???re

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

Last week I saw a TechCrunch article about an SEO analysis tool that went BETA on January 20th called WooRank which has become a quick favorite. The current free version compares 50 fields but the soon-to-be-released version will have 120, according to the TechCrunch article. To give some perspective, median is 51.4 (of

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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). You're welcome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. What does web site stickiness mean in the context of Web2.0? Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 how can we get them to do that on our site as well???? How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Also, be sure to read Sean's summary of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about how a new generation is reinventing fundraising. The AFP blog points to a press release from Firstgiving about the launch of a social networking site. Check the web site for the application and more details. young people??? " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. NpTech Community.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. Del.icio.us , as the article points out, is the mother of all social bookmarking sites. And if you frequently do research on the web and need to save pointers to a great many sites, you will immediately see its value.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

In our search for collaboration tools we've been looking at web sites that in one way or another make use of the wiki model - pages which are freely editable by a community of users. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. NpTech 101: How I read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days by Chas Grundy. Do search at site for the first time. URLs for your blog, web site, online community. There are different readers that offer diffferent features and almost all are free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Publish brief articles about your selected topic on a consistent basis. New articles appear at the top, so your visitors can easily read what???

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

While the execution isn’t always so clear, content marketing can increase visitors to your site and help to convert them into online donors. Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. What Is Donor Intent? Charity Watch.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? Post a Comment | by Share Article in Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising , Technology Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. Ask about their throughput: how many transactions per second can they handle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I have some static resources there, several dynamic resources (like syndicated feeds of certain categories of my Furl archive and the main column of posts or articles. I set them up with a nice looking site, ancillary services like a traffic monitor, email-subscribe service, RSS feeds and explanation, syndicated headlines from elsewhere, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

The following article was originally published in the June 2014 issue of User Experience Magazine. While this trend seems to be on the decline on for-profit sites (hallelujah!), Spending money on a nonprofit site is different because the user doesn’t directly benefit from the purchase. it to trickle down to the small town?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

According to Wikipedia, content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers (or donors, volunteers, etc. blackbaud Community content marketing content marketing institute nptech nten reports Strategy Web Sites Communications Program'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2010

Now that most nonprofits have a Community Page on Facebook in addition to their Official Page, it is crucial that nonprofits create a Wikipedia account to edit, maintain, and “Watch&# their organization’s Wikipedia Page. Notice how the Community Page has a Wikipedia Tab? Create a Wikipedia account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and describing them with tags. Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a public web site and describing them with tags. sharpie.??? s PBS LearningNow essay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Great idea, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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