Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2012

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Like almost all libraries, we're scrupulous in following the law, because we're serving incredibly important communities. But, we're not for piracy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. Typical wiki communities are work groups within a company, educators and students, and hobbyists. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Building a Wiki. Examples of Wikis.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Have you ever thought about hosting nonprofit technology events in your community? 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. You should, because it's awesome fun. 501 Connects.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

Zena Weist is wondering about whether Chris Brogan's Twitter Pack Project can be defined as community sourcing which distinctly different than crowd sourcing. Here's what Zena is asking: Define community sourcing. with me.help me expand on this post and live the definition along the way.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Many low-income communities access the Mobile Web more frequently than the desktop Web. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the weeks after Google+ launched I saw a number of blog posts and articles about how brands should drop Facebook and Twitter, and migrate their communities over to Google+. Many low-income communities access the Mobile Web more frequently than the desktop Web. Gen X is big on blogging, e-mail, and social networking.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. The blogosphere is a huge, fractious, disorganized community.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

It is with the same combined emotion of being impressed and knowing it's true that I announce today that Brett will be stepping down from his role as NTEN's Communications Director at the end of February. If only Wikipedia had an entry cataloguing Brett's email references!). Curious if other readers have taken the link bait yet?

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AFP Blog

MARCH 26, 2007

Wired News: Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations: "By Kim Zetter| Also by this reporter14:00 PM Mar, 23, 2007Two top employees of the Wikimedia Foundation have resigned, citing disagreements with the board.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Have you made a video like this? Would love to see your other examples of annual reports that break the mold!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A search engine that “knows millions of things&# about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.&# What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

I hope this insight serves you well, as it has for me, and that it aids you in your efforts to build stronger communities. The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. There are no experts, yet. Embrace it and thrive, or resist and go the way of the technosaur.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What is it about the health community that’s different? For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. It’s about death. Why do we tell stories?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Wikipedia , “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.” It’s time to consider new and unusual ideas and actions that will help us move forward as a community. It’s time to innovate, friends.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2010

According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." Crowdsourcing is being used to help find the answers to these and many other questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns. That's why I so happy to discover that my colleague, Daniela Faris, at Icommons has written a blog post profiling ten fascinating wiki communities hosted by Mediawiki software. Of course online communities don't magically happen. Maybe I missed it or perhaps there is a good reason why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2005

I must admit when I hear about Community Driven Spread Campaigns, I can't help but visualize a baby boomer celebrating their 50th birthday and sharing a huge dark chocolate chocolate cake with friends, family, and various people from their social networks. Part one: promoting community projects in the marketplace Part two Corante 1 and 2.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

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.”. Community ecosystem. Engaging other nonprofits in the community who are interested in similar causes.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

From September 30 to October 21, TechSoup will host a free Digital Storytelling online event including expert roundtable discussions, nonprofit case studies, online discussions, live chat, and a community challenge with a final screening awards ceremony in the virtual world of Second Life. Follow the action on Twitter #tsdigs.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. Well, it can at least boost your internal staff knowledge and your positioning as a resource in the community! First, what’s a web-inar? Is sharing really caring?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire works with 8,000 nonprofits and 43 funders who anticipate the growing need for immediate and long-term assistance , especially relating directly to COVID-19 and is tapping its volunteer community for responsive health and human services. .

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest).

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AFP Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap helps Nepal earthquake response | Opensource.com : " One interesting effort has been from the crowdsourced mapping community, especially on OpenStreetMap.org, a free and open web map of the world that anyone can edit (think the Wikipedia of maps.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

At the last "follow the leader" session, John Smith from CpSquared said, "Communities of Practice are like a Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland." " I keep thinking the community on twitter or the village is like that too. Wikipedia Photo by Bob Z. Here's the description of Cheshire Cat character.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

Yi-Tan Community hosts a weekly 40-minute conference call about navigating change in technology and society. Warren referenced 1/9/90 rule of online community sharing – that 90% of people lurk, 9% share regularly, and 1% share a lot. I really want better community management options such as open or shared or topical circles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). Beyond buy-in, another driving goal was to let this process be a way for the community to “hear itself think.” Most strategic planning processes organize around the plan,” said Sue.

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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

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. Wikipedia is the most obvious answer, but is it really ready to be a primary resource in children's education? Photo: Bright Tal.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. Make sure the agency and dignity of the individuals or communities you serve shines through, and that you are not portraying them as passive recipients of aid or a problem to be solved.

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