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.” COVID-19, a global pandemic. A global and marked increase in climate change-related catastrophe. A global economic downturn. An election year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. These convenings are often driven by the needs and goals of participants.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Ending the Book Famine: the Marrakesh Treaty The World Blind Union talks about the global book famine experienced by blind people, and the negative impacts on education and employment on many millions of people around the world. Ten years ago, I was one of a handful of leaders who got together to create a first draft of a global treaty.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." Global Energy Observatory ? See Thomas Friedman? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s s focused on an important problem ? s vision for GEO is ?to

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

In light of that trend and all the recent travel upheaval due to COVID – 19, with increasing restrictions being placed on companies and their global workforce, we wanted to address creative alternatives to traditional volunteer events. . Global Volunteer Programs. updating relevant Wikipedia pages. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How Wikimedia tapped into the wisdom of its network of 100,000 global volunteers to write their strategic plan…and why. Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). Guest post by Anna Muoio. Doing the Conventional, Unconventionally”.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2010

With the global success of Wikipedia, many organizations are curious of the pros, cons, and technical details of how exactly wikis work. This free webinar on Wednesday, May 5, 11 a.m. Pacific time will review the basics of wikis, including software options, best practices, advantages, as well as drawbacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. He has seen it all.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Find your local #nptech tribe and consider sharing your skills as a volunteer surgeon by joining a NetSquared Local group. Tuesday, August 13.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 25, 2012

I've cut and pasted the list of environmental issues from Wikipedia below. What environmental issues are close to your heart? It's not meant to overwhelm you; just to provide fodder for your answers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This week, the world is gearing up for mobile's biggest global tradeshow, Mobile World Congress (MWC). At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services. Security Alert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Via Global Voices Advocacy blog. video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); tools and websites. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. That global connection is a huge way that worlds connect at Bookshare. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core. Library 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

Interestingly enough, the entry has the following tags and sums up our global confusion about what mentoring is. Folks want help and guidance but have trouble figuring out exactly on what. What is a mentor and what do they do anyway? There seems to be a lot of confusion around this as well. What Is or Isn’t Mentorship?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

– Wikipedia. Bond: Top 11 Resources on Blockchain for Global Development. – Wikipedia. TechSoup Global: Global Survey Reveals Why NGOs Are Moving IT to the Cloud. The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. NTEN: Restoring Trust in the Nonprofit Sector with Blockchain. – PC Magazine.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. I am honored to work with a global community of learners who bravely embrace new media while striving to maintain the high standards of traditional librarianship and academic credibility," said Dr. Hill. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Join them every month for a dose of community invigoration! Asia and Pacific Rim.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

" Another paper, The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration , concludes that "income is largely responsible for the global technology gap" The Infighting. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Global NpTech. Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Google Earth launches Virtual Telescope: Sky as noted by the Viralroots blog where you can see both GoogleEarth and the sky. Wanna check out more tech tools? What's Hiafux

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. You can just make up the tags on the fly, and do a global replace later as you refine your tagging terms. Let's begin at the beginning by making sure you've heard of one of most interesting phenomena of web2.0: social bookmarking. Look it up.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving powered by social media, peer pressure (the good kind!), and the good feeling you get when you contribute to an organization you love. The day has grown into the world’s biggest giving movement and gets bigger every year. Donors gave an astounding $2.7 billion to nonprofits on Giving Tuesday in 2021.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Were quite interested in traveling the globe to find good relationships that also help us become better global internet fundraisers. Were excited about the potential of global campaigning which makes perfect sense since the Internet is a truly global medium. We now have clients in Canada, US, UK, Australia and the Netherlands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Global Voices has issued a statement explaining why they are supporting this Internet strike. Source: flickr.com via Beth on Pinterest.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System. BRIDGE is an acronym for Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities. Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility.

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