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. Building a Wiki.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to Wikipedia , “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.” Some good examples of disruptive innovations are streaming video (thanks, Netflix!) and downloadable digital music (through platforms like Amazon or iTunes).

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business."

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Wikipedia states “URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address. For example, the page [link] can be shortened to [link] If you use tools such as Tweetdeck or Seesmic , these are already built into those applications.

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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. If all webpages were PubSubHubbub enabled, for example, they could simply tell a Hub about any changes they had published and Google could find out via that Hub. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

For example, for one organization, $10,000 may be considered the minimum major gift amount. For example, one donor may prefer an email or a conversation over coffee, while another may like receiving calls from your organization. Specific major gift amounts will depend on the size of your organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. Example – in Jeremiah Owyang’s report, of the 18 use cases for Social CRM he uses, 7 or 8 of them are really use cases for metrics.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. At the global Disability Rights Fund (DRF), for example, the first MEL framework was developed at a gathering of staff, advisors, and donors—the majority of whom were activists with disabilities from the Global South.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. Are gift economies undermined by the thought that someone, somewhere is making money off it? Absolutely.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Let me offer one piece of advice: let’s not get distracted by the story and instead focus on the epilogue – the Ice Bucket Epilogue: it’s about the data. Discussion and debate. That’s where our team at Third Sector Labs wants to help.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. For example, you should prefer short sentences and simple syntax. Here’s an example from an ancient text, highlighting where those elements show up. Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. For example, if you were an environmental organizations working on climate change issues you would use key words such as global warming, renewable energy, etc) as much as possible. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). This means that when a new social media platform becomes popular, for example, the community can create an integration within a matter of days or even hours. For example: Recruiting volunteers takes valuable staff time. Own the technology.

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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 Take a second to read through a few examples and you’ll get an idea of how I’m thinking of non-profit ecosystems. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world. What’s an Ecosystem?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The presenter gave the example of a cable TV installer who goes to homes to turn on cable services. He used an example of a customer service representative who brings up a customer profile that includes everything about that customer — emails, documents, their contract. It requires no API and no coding. via search to end-users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” ” We all do it.

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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. This is what I call “commons-based peer production.&#

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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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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

For example, what strategies would you use if your goal is to build your brand and grow your audience online? For example, I’ve found placing brackets in my page title tend to increase clicks. For example, did you know the phrase, “ where to donate furniture ,” is searched 990 times per month?

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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. Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. For example, the best online brainstorming tools apply the same principles as the best face-to-face brainstorming processes using a whiteboard or Post-Its. Size, for example, may not be as important as diversity. The key word is potential.

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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. For example, some of your workforce might be working at the client’s office and can’t access anything outside of the client system. and get informed on just anything. The information available is abundant.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Everything else is just noise.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

Examples of private grantmaking foundations would be the Alcoa Foundation, the BP Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Private Grantmaking Foundation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Examples of private grantmaking foundations would be the Alcoa Foundation, the BP Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. PLEASE NOTE: Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is a perfect example of the term “viral” when used on the internet. Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 I think what is most captivating, and something that Slaughter and I discussed, is the statistic on Wikipedia searches. It was never a master marketing plan or something that had been strategized beforehand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+. Source: Quick Draw Comics - John Weeks. Not everyone I want to share with is on Google+. No family members or close friends yet. Not all my professional colleagues are here either.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

According to Wikipedia, or Nielsen Norman Group, an Evidence-Based User Experience Research Firm, responsive web design is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop webpages to be viewed in response to the size of the screen or web browser one is using to view a website or webpage. What is responsive web design?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

So, you can imagine my utter delight when I stumbled across this phrase as I was reading an entry on Wikipedia: “This paragraph may contain unsourced peacock terms that merely promote the subject without imparting verifiable information.” The point of adding information to Wikipedia is to give information seekers more information.

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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

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. For example, it's not out of the ordinary to see an exhibit displaying virtual representations of Van Gogh paintings, including Starry Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. As he writes on his blog : One of the great things about the Internet (other than the obvious) is that it enables people to collaborate in new ways, and each contribute little bits of their time and knowledge.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2010

So, you can imagine my utter delight when I stumbled across this phrase as I was reading an entry on Wikipedia: “This paragraph may contain unsourced peacock terms that merely promote the subject without imparting verifiable information.” The point of adding information to Wikipedia is to give information seekers more information.

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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. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? Cloud Services for Collaborating.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Examples of private grantmaking foundations are the Alcoa Foundation, the BP Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Private Grantmaking Foundation.

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