Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content.

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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. It is a scalable content management and system integration platform of choice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Marnie, Daniel, and Billy had been following developments at O’Reilly Web 2.0 Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. and knew something new and interesting was going on. Google Maps.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

As a result, website experiences have had to change significantly—from the way websites are designed and developed to the Content Management System (CMS) used and search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. This means that a site’s content and images respond to the dimensions of the devices its site visitors are using.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Or, are you throwing a ton of content on the web hoping someone will find it? By the end of this guide, you’ll learn how to get your content read … how to build brand authority & trust… And how to grow your revenues online. Heat maps and click maps are helpful to show what content is most useful to visitors.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. “Web accessibility” means creating websites that can be fully used by people with disabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. Capriza.com — promises to revolutionize mobile apps.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. We do collection development in both directions now. Library 2.0 is what librarians call it when we apply these ideas to libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Niche content. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. User generated content - Web 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

I found the Wikipedia entry for Ken Burns. Content is available under a GNU Free Documentation licence. So, in thinking of the practical application, one would need to study the patterns of wiki growth and development as well as the challenges. Maybe I missed it or perhaps there is a good reason why. That's a start.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This Winter, Luminate Online will officially support HTML5, allowing organizations to select this new DOCTYPE when building out content. If you want to learn more about CORS and Access-Control-Allow-Origin, the Mozilla Developer Network has an article with lots of useful information. 3) Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene was the consultant on Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness grant to strengthen the network of a Population/Reproductive Health grantee, The International Institute of Education's Leadership Development for Moblizing Reproductive Health Program. Eugene said not to focus on the content. 1) Everybody is People.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. One of the comments listed other, non-web-based collaborative uses of short-format content, including potluck dinners. application like MySpace or Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 26, 2010

For me, the free 50-field version is a good gut check on how well I have my SEO basics down as I code and develop a site. of sites currently tested), and sites such as code.google.com , Wikipedia and Mozilla.org are in the high 80’s/low 90’s. Fortunately, we came out above average with a score of 66.4. (To

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. With an effective User Interface, a flowing river of news can be a very compelling way to consume content. These are important developments with a whole lot of potential to change the way we use the web and what we can do with it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A large number of the collaborative projects of which I'm aware (in which staff partner with community members to co-develop exhibits or programs) are initiated with teens. Teens more commonly use the Web to stay in touch with their pre-existing social groups than to join new communities based on content affinities or interests.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, professional development. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. After all, you don’t have to have great content to get to a networked, social experience ( Twitter certainly proves that fact). Narratively, this makes sense. Surgeons act in order to make a diagnosis.’”

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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. It's a list of Israeli Linux Clubs!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. But one page! I'm not sure I succeeded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. For me, the web and 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. You can use it as a classic wiki; but I've seen how some small organizations have used it as a poor man's content management system for their main web site. I can make a list of features I wish it had, but for $4.95

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple. It can be argued that they have exhausted the potential bequeathed them by the experimentation of the 1970s without developing fresh approaches for the new millennium. I don't want a plastic tree.

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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. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Developers of the ECHO project are exploring new ways to use web technology to bring native voices into museum exhibits and research. Some of the largest web ventures are opening the doors to their content by giving savvy scripters direct access to the databases that drive these sites using programatic interfaces or APIs.

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