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How Wikipedia Faces Emerging Knowledge with Collective Capital

Non Profit Quarterly

On its website, the Wikimedia Foundation describes Wikipedia in bold terms and five languages as “the essential infrastructure for free knowledge.” The overwhelming majority of editors on the page, according to Wikipedia’s own breakdown , work in English, and a full 20 percent of editors live in the US while no editors live in Africa.

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Thoughts on the Blackbaud – Convio deal

Robert Weiner

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. I have no inside knowledge about what the merged company will look like. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed.

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Vote for the Best Social Change and Technology Projects at Netsquared!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. CompuMentor has created a Technology Innovation Fund to provide direct cash support to projects selected by the NetSquared Community. Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam.

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Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few days ago, I got a ping from Deborah Finn via a social bookmarking service with a pointer to the same book - " Nonprofits and Technology: Emerging Research for Usable Knowledge " One of the chapters is called "Geeks for Good: Technology Evangelism and the Role of Circuit Riders in.

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A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits

NTEN

These brave and bold new solutions are founded on two simple concepts: Your systems should actively recognize and classify constituents using the same language and rules as your organization. Prior to Orange Leap, Matt was a Principal Consultant for Convio, the online constituent relationship management (CRM) company.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

Personally, I have been futzing around with learning R (a statistical/data manipulation language) and have passing knowledge of a lot of the concepts that these fellows addressed—machine learning, natural language processing, etc. Ah, well, that didn’t come to pass, and my finance knowledge sits largely, sadly, unused.

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