Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

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. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Podcasting. Text messaging.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

This post was written by GuideStar International communications manager Keisha Taylor and originally published on the GuideStar International blog. A team of 13 interns successfully geocoded 1,216 World Bank projects in 7 weeks, defying the belief in some quarters that it would be impossible. Tags: International News.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. Well, it can at least boost your internal staff knowledge and your positioning as a resource in the community! First, what’s a web-inar? Is sharing really caring?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. strength-based, internal motivation. When you move to the web, you have increasing returns to scale , but the number of people involved to affect the increasing returns are at a much larger scale (many more people, etc.). Increasing return systems are: digital.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

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. It requires no API and no coding. Please log in and tell us.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

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. Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). The TechSoup Global Network , NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource projects facilitate philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world. Welcome to the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. The link need to be like so: Africa. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Networks in an International Context. His slides and my notes and reflections follow. 1) Everybody is People.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. The link need to be like so: Africa. 501 Connects.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. Tranparency means open, frank or candid.

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AFP Blog

JULY 30, 2007

The NonProfitTimes - eNewsletter: "Taking advantage of the first revision of Form 990 in years, the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) and Guidestar have created a Wiki page to solicit comments and suggestions for the new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form.Like Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, users can log on with a (..)

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. I challenge you take at least one day to discuss internally how things went in 2016, and how you can do even better next year.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

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. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Money, it's a drag.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

Daniel Ben-Horin, CompuMentor's President and co-CEO, commented: 'Wikipedia, DeanSpace, MoveOn, Firefox Campaign, craigslist - none of these succeeded because they had faster servers or fatter pipes than anyone else. It is the first-ever public dialog on fostering the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies in the nonprofit sector.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

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. Some of the problems: (1) the license leave holders and redistributers open to charges of patent infringement. (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) A cluster is a bounded group of people who are connected, but have few connections to other nodes. Think of a Tower-like organization where staff aren't encouraged to network or within siloed departments.)

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. He is a 35+ year practitioner of a variety of martial arts of which most has been in the Chinese internal school.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

Photoshare – This collection focuses on images that depict international health as part of the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project and was funded by USAID. 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

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. More museums should be building these programming skills in internal teams that grow expertise from project to project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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 Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

This latest one spotlights the many great interns, associates and fellows that are or were working for Benetech over this summer and into this year. As an intern, Kristian has spent her summer doing what she loves: statistical analysis. She also loves the fact that Benetech is based in California’s naturally beautiful Bay Area.

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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. We are an international volunteer community dedicated to amplifying citizen media from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I'm also very interested in the use of internal blogs. A large number of big corporations are using internal blogs to facilitate conversation between leadership and the rest of the organization. Creating a place where content around a certain theme is aggregated, in part by machine selection in part socially, and in part by a human.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

Wikipedia : In philanthropy, donor intent is the purpose , sometimes publicly expressed, for which a philanthropist intends a charitable gift or bequest. You can also use these related phrases in your internal link building strategies. Internal Link Building Done Right. What Is Donor Intent? Anchor Text Links.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

This offer is international. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy. The project also works closely with volunteer translators at Wikipedia’s translatewiki.net. Find eligibility information here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. This YouTube video shows how to exclude your internal traffic (min 2:13) by using a filter. Very basic tools, but useful for an international site with a wide variety of visitors.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Have an internal point person executing the plan and creating a wrap up analysis with learnings for next year (this doesn’t have to be your classic fundraising person either). Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Timebox it.

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