article thumbnail

All-in-One Printers: Save Money and the Environment - Part 2

Tech Soup

However, Wikipedia list some significant drawbacks including energy use and the potential for ink waste. Tags: Acquiring Technology Green Office GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers. Be careful of solid ink printers. Paper Types: Steer clear of printers that need specialty paper to print text.

article thumbnail

Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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?

Disaster 206
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What’s Missing from Your Ecosystem?

NetWits

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.”. Tags: Marketing and Communication #nptech Non-Profit. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world.

San Diego 100
article thumbnail

The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. He then spends some time making clear how the new networked environment makes peer distribution possible.

Chapter 100
article thumbnail

Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. * 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.

article thumbnail

Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. * 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.

article thumbnail

The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? When you're trying to reach out to people, are you trying to reach out to all people or just the people in the environments that you understand? Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

Digital 74