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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Seattle, Washington: How to Grow Your WordPress Site.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

It also means you can pick up your site and take it to any vendor. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). Calendar API integration: $2000. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. Staff cost: $40/hour.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

(Please visit the site to view this video). If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. NetSquared DC's Roshani Kothari on why she loves NetSquared. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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In With the QR In Crowd

Connection Cafe

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.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Those whacky wikis

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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