Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He selected some definitions from the Internet. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Conclusion.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? The "voices" of the Internet that you get are biased by the people who are in the places that you hang out.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The Internet affords myriad opportunities for connecting with women. According to Wikipedia , giving circles are a form of philanthropy consisting of groups of individuals who pool their funds and other resources to donate to their communities and seek to increase their awar eness and engagement in the process of giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? Technorati Tags: ilaw

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Tags: network effectiveness scholar working wikily. I've gotten into the.

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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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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.) I used the tag #packnet and asked for the "Poor Man Dummies Guide to Social Network Analysis and Mapping Tools." Vladis Krebs and other Twitter users pointed to some great resources which are listed below along with others that I discovered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag!

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

A network cloud is just a collection of servers living out on the Internet providing various services -- much like how websites are served from a web server, but in a much larger, scalable fashion. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. What's floating in the clouds? Should I click that "OK" button?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Because of the dynamic and changing nature of the internet this conference serves as a good barometer of new and innovative approaches in the museum world. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

In this context that means that though blogging and throwing my thoughts all around the internet may seem like the most natural thing in the world to me - that is not the case for everyone. I found you doing a Technorati Tag Search for Non-Profit, after I applied the same tag to a blog post of mine. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Tags: inclusion comfort. What can you do to gain visitors' trust?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Teachers don’t have to pretend that Wikipedia, YouTube, and other online tools don’t exist, or aren’t used by their students. Tags: children's museums. Note: Portions of this post excerpted from "Beyond Hands On: Web 2.0

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Register for YouTube Nonprofits and/or Facebook Nonprofits and make sure you have a strong internet connection. New volunteers will be evaluating new nonprofits based on rating sites. Timebox it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Janet Kornblum Janet Kornblum began writing about technology in 1994 when she was deemed the newsroom expert because she could actually log on to the Internet. Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. What is the visual metaphor? Pilot's dashboard ?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

Internet Culture An interesting debate has raged around the blogosphere in the last couple weeks in response to a polemical piece posted by Jason Lanier: Digital Maosim - Hazards of the New Online Collectivism. The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

It's The People Behind The Tags! Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 of Internet visits. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 is a series of innovations in web technology that have come together in unexpected ways, to change the experiences that people have in using the internet, and has made it much more deeply a many-to-many experience, rather than the more one-to-many experience it had been before. Hallmarks of Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Wikipedia takes center stage Nicholas Carr has been bemused for a good while now by the growing popularity of the publically editied Internet knowledge compendium Wikipedia. It's hard to find a topic where the Wikipedia entry is not among the top 10! A developer-written helpfile may miss the point entirely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. Some blog posts about the conference tagged with nptech can be found here , here , here , and here. It's called Moulin.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

On sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, the ratio of spectators to producers is even more pronounced; on sites like Flickr or Facebook, the ratio is lower. This goes beyond having your fifteen minutes of internet fame. Tags: design usercontent. 1% is a pretty exclusive club. Games do this. Why don't social community projects?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Most of the things that I know about Wikipedia are from watching The Colbert Report. Like it or not, the way our visitors experience their world and therefore our museums is through contributing to conversations and making connections both on the internet and in everyday life. Tags: professional development.

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