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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made. Not notable enough.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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What’s Missing from Your Ecosystem?

NetWits

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An An [ecological] community together with its environment,functioning as a unit.”. The unit referred to in our definition is one where every part of it is required for survival and growth.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

Community Health Needs Assessment), is collaboration between Kaiser Permanente, Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool. One of the sites discussed, CHNA.org.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Third C: Community.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. Emphasize what you will do with the gift and how it will impact the community.

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