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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# Twitter Mosaic :: sxoop.com/twitter.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com. USTREAM :: ustream.tv.

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People of the Year: US

Have Fun - Do Good

It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."--Lev Lev Grossman, from, "Person of the Year: YOU", TIME. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again.

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Nonprofit Commons in Second Life Survives Griefing Attack

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. re helpless to change something huge, like intrenched sexism, in the communities and industries we call home." Photo by Peacemaker.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! internetarizans tracks the Internet, Human Rights and Social Change. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Fundamentally the question is ???why Perfect Password generator.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” TechSoup.org :: techsoup.org.

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