Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to those listed below, see also international public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Days. 5: World Environment Day — #WorldEnvironmentDay. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your editorial calendar.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

a))” [Wikipedia] GyrusAim has developed a feature for supporting compliance with Title 21 CFR Part 11. Though your LMS may not support this particular requirement for electronic signatures, there may be an alternative compliance component that can be utilized for security purposes within your current environment. Beal, Vangie. "What

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that stewards Wikipedia, regularly asks for feedback from stakeholders and publishes what they share, along with any changes that are made to the programs from that feedback. As grantmakers, we can reconsider traditional monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches from start to finish.

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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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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.”. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world. What’s an Ecosystem?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Wikipedia came up with a great idea , one we encourage you to steal. that our moods are driven in part by a shared underlying biological rhythm that transcends culture and environment." If you like your stories in bite-size, infinitely repeating packages, GIF.tv will keep you occupied for seconds at a time. Lots of seconds.

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

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Forj

MARCH 7, 2018

Wikipedia ? More frequently, the term is used in the domain of e- learning and related fields in the sense of a new paradigmatic perspective on learning processes in mediated environments.”. Let’s agree on a general definition of microlearning. Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. With the changing work environment and compliance requirement, your LMS should scale to meet the needs of larger and varied workforce as well as evolving training requirements. and get informed on just anything.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

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.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

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.

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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. Human intelligence is driven by the need to adapt to changing circumstances in our environment.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce travel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The anatomy of a dispute is to identify parties, issues, and structure a process and create an environment for feedback from neutral observers. When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Photo by Peacemaker. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay."

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

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? Cell phones and wireless technology mean rural areas don't need expensive landlines.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. Today in the United States, 25 percent of children under age 5 are Hispanic; by 2050, that percentage will be almost 40 percent.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together. To create an environment where the network can learn from each other requires intentional modeling. (4) 4) Simplicity Scales.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

Along with other practices developed by the Agile Development movement, Scrum evolved to create a structure for modern software projects which take place in changing business environments with short lead times and continuously morphing requirements. Scrum is an attempt to accept and work in this environment, rather than deny it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Teachers don’t have to pretend that Wikipedia, YouTube, and other online tools don’t exist, or aren’t used by their students.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older. This means that teens are not necessarily more savvy or more interested than other groups in engaging in communities of practice around content experiences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.” Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare. Right now his biggest project is at home – caring for his newborn baby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Second, she goes into a lot of details on what she calls 'Informational Social Networks' like Wikipedia , Mahalo Answers , and Yahoo Answers which get a lot of traffic and can generate significant ongoing referrals. WiserEarth, for example, would fit into that category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. library, and nonprofit environments is mainly due to the benefits offered. Think of it as the track changes feature in word, but on the web so that anyone who has access can contribute. The growing adoption of wikis in educational.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

At the simplest level, cross-platform can mean a single action in one environment inducing action in another. Most examples are stunts that don't create an environment of cross-platform play. You can read more about the game on Wikipedia , and some commentary on it from Wired.

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