Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

disappear – that Facebook would come to the realization that they made a mistake by creating them in the first place (as a precursor to Facebook Places Pages and then Facebook Location ), but that Facebook recently upgraded the design of community pages indicates that Facebook has no plans of getting rid of them anytime soon.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Our donor retention CRM expert friends at Bloomerang would point out the importance of building a fundraising plan around donor retention, a plan that includes CRM technology designed for this purpose. Discussion and debate. In conclusion.

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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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. PHP is one of many programming languages. Plone, for instance is written in Python. apps are written using these frameworks).

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. It can be more strategic about its vendor selection, increase direct revenues from a nonprofit website design, and generate longer term buy-in from leadership. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2011

E-readers are electronic devices with LCD screens between five and nine inches that are designed for reading digital books, magazines, and other electronic documents. Wikipedia has a good long list of all of them. The answer is yes, if you buy and read lots of books, but no if you read less frequently or use your public library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

I also learned that one of the design personas was an individual who was therapist who needed to keep a professional wall between her work and clients – much the same issue that educators have in friending students or their parents. We also talked about how circles are different from communities.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? This year’s theme, “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place,” is a two-day learning experience designed to help causes and those interested in social good understand the complexities of today’s cause enthusiasts – and, most importantly, how to move them into becoming cause activists.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

According to Wikipedia, a wireframe is a “visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website” If you’re going through a design project, you’ll likely see wireframes after a user research phase and possibly a sitemap phase. Often times, wireframes will start as just that – paper sketches.

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Forj

MARCH 7, 2018

Unless the adult learner is motivated by a designation, a degree, or the learning exercise is required, he or she expects the learning format to be entertaining and to the point. Wikipedia ? They are typically self-directed bringing their experiences to play when ready to learn or as they just need information.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature…” These great qualities of ideas led to our legal system regulating the propagation of ideas differently than physical objects.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Designed for the developing world, nonprofit Mozilla's Firefox phones are meant to be a low-cost alternative to iPhones and Android phones. At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Fixing Wikipedia Articles link [via Michael Gilbert's weekly Nonprofit Online News] More and more often we find that wikipedia is the first place we are pointed to when seeking information about a person or organization online. Suppose you look up your NPO and find incorrect information in the article? That's what this piece is about.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This free web tool is designed to help nonprofits as well as local health departments, financial institutions, and hospitals better understand the needs and assets of their communities. With the Community Commons tools, people can choose to keep their maps and data private or share them with others.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Toronto, Ontario: Graphic Design Hacks for Nonprofits. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Monday, April 13, 2015. Orlando, Florida: Orlando Tech Week: Closing the Infrastructure Gap for Nonprofits. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. I've used a little social network theory to design my FriendFeed friending strategy. It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information. Some of you may be wondering what the heck FriendFeed is as well. It gives me a better snapshot that just following a Twitter stream.

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See3

JANUARY 14, 2008

I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. I was recently contacted by yet another Michael Hoffman who asked me to link to his website. Here it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives. It’s important to note, however, that each layer is valuable in itself, and it’s OK to design an initiative to only exploit the Content or Collaboration layers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Designing nonprofit experiences can be quite different from designing retail or commercial experiences. While there are many differences in nonprofit versus for-profit design, there are a lot of UX techniques we can borrow from one another. I like to compare the nonprofit design world to small town fashion. Visual design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Designers create most logos in a vector format so they can be placed on anything from a business card to a billboard and still look good. If you want to learn more about vector graphics, this Wikipedia article can give you a broader understanding of how they work. Photographs are the opposite: They're raster graphics.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2015

Designers create most logos in a vector format so they can be placed on anything from a business card to a billboard and still look good. If you want to learn more about vector graphics, this Wikipedia article can give you a broader understanding of how they work. Photographs are the opposite: They're raster graphics.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Google is partnering with eyeglass designers like Warby Parker and Ray-Ban to address this. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. He sees the major hurdles to wearables to be the same as cloud: privacy of data collected, and security of personal data getting hacked or stolen. Another concern is that Glass looks geeky and Borg-like.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” To that end, SEO really is a required part of good website design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I’ll be working a lot with Open Office, and hope to design some screencasts using Open Office Base sometime in the next few months. It is also cross platform.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

In Ciborra's approach, the user of a system -- the "actor" typically designated by a stick figure in standard system diagrams -- must be understood as a person and not a robot. Tagged: npTech , IT , Ciborra additional reading: wikipedia aricle on Cibbora. review of his book "The Labyrinths of Information"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. (But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. I know there is a similar cooperative in the Bay Area called Tech Underground.

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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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