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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

For example, PatientOpinion’s community could operate very different if it was a for-profit company instead of a nonprofit organization. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. strength-based, internal motivation. Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled. network, horizontal.

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Join a Nonprofit Tech User Group This August

Tech Soup

Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations. Ben Teoh in Adelaide looks at faith and international aid. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Tuesday, August 13.

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

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Today, the Marrakesh Treaty has been ratified by more than thirty countries, and went into international effect and law as of last year. 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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Transparency and Authenticity: What do they mean for nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. As noted on the Seachange blog , "In the uptight and highly risk-averse world of non-profit communications, it???s Tranparency means open, frank or candid.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort. Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented.