Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Keeping content (like event descriptions) consistent across systems. This causes struggles big and small, such as. Own the technology.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

According to Wikipedia , Geocoding is "…The process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes). It is hoped that the project will go a long way towards ensuring that aid goes to those that need it most.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. As the nonprofit community considers the future of virtual media in education, particularly in libraries and museums, it must not forget the role Second Life plays in pushing information sharing and experiencing to new heights and levels. Success in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

They were also costly in that they pushed earlier and arguably more successful forms of ICT4D like community radio to the periphery, in an attempt to overcome the basic untenable economics of a rural telecenter, namely: . I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Ciborra's research was in the social study of information and communication technology; Ciborra felt always that Information Technology must be understood as a social rather than scientific discipline. Tagged: npTech , IT , Ciborra additional reading: wikipedia aricle on Cibbora. review of his book "The Labyrinths of Information"

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Money, it's a drag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Wrangling your RSS Feeds by Amy Sample Ward 4. Set up your Listening Radar and Response System Your radar will have different components: Ego Feeds: Search on your organization's name, url, or other specific identifier. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There’s the true value of Vendor provided SaaS and installed solutions that is very difficult for the open-source community to match, even though the open source software is ‘free’ -Jon Biedermann DonorPerfect CRM Fundraising Software 800-220-4411 4 Charles Bagnall 09.26.08

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike. It might be a recommendation system that helps visitors find things that they'll like or be inspired by based on the preferences of previous visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Are there others?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

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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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. NpTech Community. as an excellent example of systems thinking that needed in the nonprofit techspace. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. And some background reading. " Findhabeas.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? Yes, this means you will get more random solicitations from 5th graders writing book reports on your content. In the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. We are an international volunteer community dedicated to amplifying citizen media from around the world. Source: flickr.com via Beth on Pinterest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I show people how to use ancillary services, including an RSS feed reader and social bookmarking system to find and store content that may end up on their blog. I noticed that you recently posted on the nptech community site , how did you discover it? It's such a huge field, we'll have to see how helpful such a broad tag ends up being.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

” To be fair, Causes describes the acquisition as a new chapter for the Causes community. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. Perhaps demise is too strong a word, then.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Lakeside Chautauqua managed to raise $105k by focusing on a local restoration project in their community. New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Timebox it.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Moreover, many libraries, housing developments, community centers, and other organizations will soon receive new computers as a result of Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grants approved in the public computing category. Disk cloning has several potential applications for system administrators in libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Give to communities and encourage idea sharing. This can inform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. He also defines it as the formation of communities of interest can form around particular behaviors, or "clouds" potential. And how our connectedness is resulting in new collective behavior that can't be controlled.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2011

is now 64-bit only software and requires a computer with a 64-bit processor and 64-bit operating system. Premiere Elements 10 includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions to run on both systems, but the 32-bit version won't be able to access more than 4 GB of RAM (if your computer has that much memory). In addition, Premiere Pro CS5.5

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

But as George Bernard Shaw told us: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." And so we arrive at the challenge when software guys sit down with organizations to make the system do what their users need. Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons. What an insult!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. LevelUp is a mobile payment system that allows users to register their credit cards to make purchases at participating merchants with a simple scan of a QR code. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. LevelUp :: thelevelup.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com. IconsPedia :: iconspedia.com/pack/social-me-1467.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com. LevelUp :: thelevelup.com. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. sharpie.???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. LevelUp is a mobile payment system that allows users to register their credit cards to make purchases at participating merchants with a simple scan of a QR code. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com. LevelUp :: thelevelup.com.

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See3

AUGUST 6, 2007

Communication grid so people can talk to each other eg. You have to have the ability to communicate. wikipedia b. You can reach out to lots of online communities, but you need a single site that brings all the information together. You have to work the communities to get critical mass. Shared Resources a.

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