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.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website. Since my desktop computer at work is set up to scan all downloaded files, every file is checked. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. This also allows me to adjust the abstract and add tags if needed.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. You can use the Mavenlink workspace to communicate and share documents and other files right from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities. From our point of view, sharing our content helps TechSoup achieve its mission: making technology information available to every charity and library that needs it. We are in pretty good company.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." 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.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. Pages can have comments, images, and a list of file attachments. A team of volunteers looks over the changes each day and reverts the edits they deem unacceptable back to the prior version. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. plus two file sharing services sendspace and box.net. They are calling on Americans nationwide to gather and hold silent, candlelight vigils to mourn those lost, reminiscent of the vigils after 9/11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

Morgue File – This collection of photographs were freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects. Wikipedia Public Domain Images – Wikipedia uses public domain images and has organized a collection with information on how the photos can be used and attributed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. Would you post your entire collections database as a downloadable file on the public website? If these trends continue museums will need to adapt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

Pull not push content, changeability of information after initial transmission, ease of opting out for recipients, easier delivery of attached multimedia files.). Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

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. File Manager: Box.net. Ability to import and export documents in various file formats.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Therefore, in addition to copying data, files, and folders in the manner of a backup program, imaging tools copy the operating system, boot files, and applications, along with all configurations and settings in place when the imaging takes place. Disk cloning has several potential applications for system administrators in libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. Hyper connectivity among employees has the potential to increase security risks due to lost hardware, software, internet transfer of files, etc. They use many more devices, channels, and tools then "regular" people.

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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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