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Useful Hacks, Tricks & Tips for WordPress Users: Part 1

Byte Technology

Indeed, message boards teem with useful information that WordPress users, designers and administrators at every level of knowledge and skill share and disseminate. Upload all the photos you want to display, click on “create gallery” and then “Create a new gallery.”

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Volunteers look at a photo of a missing person, compare it to a news image, and see if they can find a match.

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Data Digest: From Presidential Campaigns to Social Good

Tech Soup

The tool can embed video, audio, photos and data visualizations easily with text. Skill-building tools are also available for storytellers and they organize “ story-raisings ” community events with storytelling experts that share their knowledge. Open Source data digital storytelling big data'

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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

One of those organizations is the German American Heritage Center (GAHC), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving German heritage and sharing knowledge about the German immigrant experience. Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music.

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How does your nonprofit work with crowds? Crowdsourcing Week on Beth's Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue. Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software.

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

The team also hopes to incentivize organizations to share knowledge and give beneficiaries a direct voice. ″, that focuses on open standards and linking data. Many of us are aware of open source software and open architecture, but open philanthropy doesn’t exist yet.

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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. When there is a need to fill a gap, the Luce Center posts a photo on its Flickr site. Georgina and her staff are pictured in this photo, below. Absolutely brilliant!

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