Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

The people at AidData (a program of Development Gateway ) have teamed up with the World Bank Institute to complete the first stage of a groundbreaking geocoding project (Mapping for Results Initiative). Tags: International News. It is also hoped that more donors will provide information and support the project in the future.

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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. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites. “Web accessibility” means creating websites that can be fully used by people with disabilities.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

In the four decades since the development of Election Day exit polling, this is the largest gap ever seen in a presidential election between the votes of those under and over age 30. Tags: Marketing Research Online Marketing Online Organizing Social Networking Trends.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Some are huge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me.

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Emily Inlow-Hood of PATH shared her group’s work on building out a strategic Wikipedia presence, and the discussion went on to consider a wide range of presence management topics, from mobile (build applications? Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations. or just optimize for the browser?), Like to learn more about the possibilities?

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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. Tags: Chafee Bookshare. Library 2.0 is what librarians call it when we apply these ideas to libraries. Rowling, Neil Gaiman or Stephenie Meyer book at midnight?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. 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. Gave examples of how to tag the presentation. Conclusion.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now. The revolution that has allowed ICT services to transition to a point of real uptake and impact -- or as Heeks describes, from a tool of development to a “platform for development” --is the mobile phone. . Realizing Potential .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. 1) Everybody is People.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

" With a finite amount of money earmarked for digital inclusion programs, let alone development work in general, it seems consensus can be difficult to build. Much has been made of the possibility that technology will mitigate inequality by allowing the have-nots to leapfrog certain historical aspects of development.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s highly scalable and could be used by many around the globe, and it already has a well developed ?alpha? I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. version as a proof of concept.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s highly scalable and could be used by many around the globe, and it already has a well developed ?alpha? I first spoke with Rajan about GEO about year ago, and, honestly, wondered how he would pull off his big vision for a wikipedia-like mass editable online database of energy sources and energy flows. version as a proof of concept.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The latest ideas on collaborative software tools, AJAX web applications, and that mainstay of bread-and-butter business apps, the spreadsheet, are coming together in wikiCalc , a new application being developed by my old dormmate and VisiCalc originator, Dan Bricklin. The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Take a look.

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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. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S.

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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. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) I used the tag #packnet and asked for the "Poor Man Dummies Guide to Social Network Analysis and Mapping Tools." Vladis Krebs and other Twitter users pointed to some great resources which are listed below along with others that I discovered.

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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. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Whether those collaborations take the form of the set of Amazon book reviews that affect your purchasing or the development of wikipedia entries, short-format contributions can be quickly assembled into a reasonable composite. application like MySpace or Wikipedia. On Wikipedia? Tags: web2.0 Social connectiveness?

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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. 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. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Real-Time Publishing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. developers of low-budget modern campaign websites. developers of low-budget modern campaign websites.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

Let's start with one from February's Software Development : Licence Overload , opinion by Warren Keuffel. Two, three many license agreements Developer sensitivity to issues like this have led to a proliferation in new license agreements by major players such as MIT, SUN Microsystems, and the Mozilla Foundation.

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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. While there are some sites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, that are fairly easy to understand, there are hundreds of others with no clear differentiated value. professional development. Tags: web2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

The book is Agile Software Development with Scrum , by Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle. I see groups trying to develop training manuals, or bring their webserver in-house, upgrade various applications, and so on. Tags: nptech , tech_planning , scrum In a minute I'll give the a five-minute intro to Scrum. The purpose of Scrum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Projects professional development.

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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. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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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. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. So, now is the fun part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I try to make my blog a place people can come to learn about new developments on the web. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine. How did you discover the nptech tag ? Probably through the Delicious feed, probably via Technorati Tag search.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. The value of that content is strongly impacted by the number of active users (social benefit), and there is some collective action around the development of wikipedia articles. Tags: web2.0 informatics Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 The artifacts in museums, which they increasingly cannot even photograph for IP reasons, do not.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

During her summer internship, she has been developing the business plan for Bookshare International, which will bring the benefits of reading to people with print disabilities outside of the United States. This summer Ryan learned how to research and develop business plans for the potential expansion of Bookshare into new countries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I wrote about disk cloning (also known as disk imaging) a few years back, but it's such a useful tool for nonprofits that it's worth revisiting the topic and sharing new developments in the field. For more detail on these benefits, see Choosing a Disk Cloning Solution for Your Nonprofit or the Wikipedia article on disk cloning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2010

Now that most nonprofits have a Community Page on Facebook in addition to their Official Page, it is crucial that nonprofits create a Wikipedia account to edit, maintain, and “Watch&# their organization’s Wikipedia Page. Notice how the Community Page has a Wikipedia Tab? Create a Wikipedia account.

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