Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), We think this kind of information sharing is the essence of nonprofits and libraries' collaborative spirit. Lots of organizations now use Creative Commons licensing, including the World Bank , Wikipedia , and MIT plus many other universities.

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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. After nearly 20 years, Microsoft has decided to bow out of the electronic encyclopedia business. read more.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The TechSoup admin fee for eligible nonprofits and libraries is $40.00. It is currently available for nonprofits and libraries at an admin fee of $265 plus $9 per user license. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. The TechSoup nonprofit and library admin fee for a Wikispaces subscription is $10 per year.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Dear Museum 2.0-ers, We are uniquely situated to be these venues.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

to see if your nonprofit, charity, foundation, or public library is eligible for the new Office. Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. Apps for Office. Read more about them in Microsoft's Bing Blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” This page from Cleveland’s Public Library (Woot!) Casting Digital Shadows: What Is It, Really, and Remind Me Why I Care? …How'd it go?! Interested in seeing more?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

And how can nonprofits and public libraries actually make use of it? Wikipedia defines big data as "a collection of data set that is so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. Big data is still one of those concepts that baffle me.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Conducting training sessions on the road, or bringing constituents to you, are just some of the many ways Citrix is helping nonprofits and libraries. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services.

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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. What happens when AI has even more vast libraries and generations of human learning to draw from?

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

The Library Society of the World is one I use frequently. They used Basecamp to bring together all of the Training Officers at each State Commission throughout the country. Some are medium sized and open, but still centered around a discipline. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Much has been made of the possibility that technology will mitigate inequality by allowing the have-nots to leapfrog certain historical aspects of development. Cell phones and wireless technology mean rural areas don't need expensive landlines.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike. The Haarlem Oost library book drops are one example, but I'm sure you have seen or created others. And so I have a birthday request for you.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 Are the debates about what applications to use and which are a waste of time?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It is also possible to access MySQL databases via ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) or JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) PostgreSQL – PostgreSQL has always been my favorite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It is also possible to access MySQL databases via ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) or JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) PostgreSQL – PostgreSQL has always been my favorite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. Here's something to be proud of. Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data. Who's sharing authority and how?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Originally published at TechSoup for Libraries. Moreover, many libraries, housing developments, community centers, and other organizations will soon receive new computers as a result of Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grants approved in the public computing category.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. If you are interested in having your nonprofit listed on the Giving Library, you can apply here. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. If you are interested in having your nonprofit listed on the Giving Library, you can apply here. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Nonprofits, faith-based organizations, libraries, and networks such as the NetSquared Local should be leading this movement as they are already committed to social good. This is part of the Sharing Economy with the most transformative potential: the ability to address societal inequities and envision new ecological solutions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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