Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

At the beginning of March, Brett will be joining the crew over at ThinkShout , a long-time NTEN member, NTC Sponsor, and general do-good team in the nonprofit technology community. If only Wikipedia had an entry cataloguing Brett's email references!). It seems too simple to say he will be missed, but at least he isn't going very far.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. Knowledge needed to develop and launch AI-powered products. AI is a single technology.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer a knowledge source that I can trust the first time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

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. Connect with giving circles and encourage your members to start their own.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. LazyFeed consumes both PubSubHubbub and RSSCloud feeds in real-time as part of its topical blog search and YourVersion won't disclose what technology it uses but says the company has been working on real time since before it was cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Is this one of those flashy third world technology demonstration projects where a prestigious organization and a digerati provide a wad of cash to impose a technology solution that gets a lot of media hoopla, but isn't sustainable? But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? " Oh no.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Ciborra's research was in the social study of information and communication technology; Ciborra felt always that Information Technology must be understood as a social rather than scientific discipline. Tagged: npTech , IT , Ciborra additional reading: wikipedia aricle on Cibbora.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking. GINKs is a knowledge network promoting the use of ICTs in development in Ghana.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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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. But there is an even more basic, fundamental problem that information technology has only recently begun to tackle: passwords.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. Why are people religious about technology? Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? Technology isn't supposed to be religious. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

" I also sensed a kindred spirit who is interested in how technology impacts what's inbetween the keyboard and the chair. human aspects of technology. How did you become interested in nonprofit technology? Wikis are great for collaborative document development and knowledge sharing. I'm very excited about it.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Think of wikis of a good tool to collect information or knowledge. The power of Del.icio.us

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Mobile Marketing Watch is a blog about all things mobile technology and mobile commerce. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. 4) Knowledge management is a solitary endeavor, not a social one. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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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. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector. NTC Blog Buzz: We're just two months shy of the NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference) nptech blogs are buzzing. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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