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

Museum 2.0

Museums of all sizes have moved to digitize objects and place them on discrete webpages so visitors can easily get to the content they want through a Google search. When people want knowledge, their first stop might not be a search engine. It might be Wikipedia. But Google isn't the only way people access information on the Web.

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The Future of Cloud Computing: 5 Startups to Watch from BoxWorks

Tech Soup

Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. This internal mobile app includes only tasks that are needed by the people using it. via search to end-users. It requires no API and no coding.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Citizen journalism.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community. By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. Some are huge.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Search engines constantly scour the web for information using this method -- but bots are also used by those nasty folks on the web that like to steal your information or trash your website. Plus, there is always the trusty search engine.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. November 22, 2006 | Tompkins Spann I think Matt is right, although not-for-profits should also identify internal champions who may already be doing this sort of thing.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Google Social Edge Search searches 35 sites, including : omidyar.net, compumentor.org, techsoup.org, bblocks.org, idealist.org, rpcv.org, etc. Details are here.