Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. For libraries and organizations who work with children now, where's the new onramp? Encarta itself has a strange and fascinating history.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

We all had the " An apple a day keeps the doctor away " motto ingrained into our heads as children. It's August, school's back in session, and besides traffic being a pain in the you-know-where again, children are back in the classroom with their thinking caps on. What I'm reminiscing-ly trying to get at here is.we

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. I've suggested my favorite charity, the Sharing Foundation because of their work with Cambodian children. So, I added an entry on Google Moderator - so if you think it is a worthy cause - please do vote!

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

Latino and Asian populations are expected to nearly triple, and the children of immigrants will become more prominent. Today in the United States, 25 percent of children under age 5 are Hispanic; by 2050, that percentage will be almost 40 percent.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2012

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). What Can You Do?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Invisible Children also had great success storytelling via video with their Kony 2012 campaign. Figure 6: The Charity: Water website uses a video to explain “Why water.”. ” “The film had over 97 million views on YouTube, over 21.9 thousand likes on Vimeo, and was called the most viral video ever by TIME Magazine.”

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. Consider this: If someone is looking for a nonprofit to donate their car online to support children in need, then Wheels For Wishes might be a perfect match. What Is Donor Intent?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. So, now is the fun part.

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