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Google Search Results Now Prominently Feature Nonprofit Google+ Pages

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Data is pulled from multiple sources including Wikipedia , GuideStar and of course Google+ Pages. Finally, for those nonprofits that are using Google+ Local , your reviews and location details are now prominently featured in Google Search results as well. Sierra Club :: Impact of Google+ Page and Wikipedia.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

They eventually became hugely successful NetSquared Locals in several countries. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. LazyFeed consumes both PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud feeds in real-time as part of its topical blog search and YourVersion won't disclose what technology it uses but says the company has been working on real time since before it was cool.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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