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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better! And, the U.S.

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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?

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Microlearning: Fad or Fantastic?

Forj

Our ability to find what we need to learn on the Internet is ubiquitous; so much so that 70% of employees will turn to Google before their company learning files*. Wikipedia ? If it is basic knowledge being conveyed it is preferable to start with an introduction and end with a conclusion.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia.

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It isn’t a good idea to just grab an image from Internet, tweak it, and call it your own. Morgue File – This collection of photographs were freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects. I recently asked nonprofits on my Facebook brand page where they got their images.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Think of wikis of a good tool to collect information or knowledge. File Manager: Box.net.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this context that means that though blogging and throwing my thoughts all around the internet may seem like the most natural thing in the world to me - that is not the case for everyone. Wikis are great for collaborative document development and knowledge sharing. even could if they wanted to.

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