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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

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). Finally, there is a growing of m-hype which we should be aware and cautious of. Matt Berg, Millenium Villages.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

While gut-based decision-making is as natural as choosing your breakfast, I'd like offer some tips on how to recognize the patterns, and ultimately change the way your organization makes strategic decisions. Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Sometimes we've led trends.

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What is a Wikimuseum? And More Thoughts on Metaphorical Design

Museum 2.0

A wikimuseum could be one that anyone can add to, one that anyone can edit, one that automatically archives all changes to date, or any combination of these things. In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." I don't think terms like "wikimuseum" are pure hype.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before.

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