Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 16, 2006
.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 1, 2007
More to the point, he proposed in his 1902 book, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, that the survival of animal species and much of human progress depended on the tendency to help others. That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift gift economy,??? People who???s MySpace , etc.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2009
Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.
NTEN
AUGUST 31, 2010
According to Heeks, the field of ICT4D emerged really as an artifact of the telecenter model which was used successfully to extend basic ICT services at the periphery in North America and Europe. . User fees -- necessary if you ever wished to achieve sustainability -- were always a struggle, as they often shut the desired audience out.
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. So how do we propose to pay for it? She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers."
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 18, 2011
” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing.
ASU Lodestar Center
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Wilbur considered the post “a very special trust,” (123) and set up a partnership model that “emphasized cooperation, integrity, and credibility, that way we could set some standards for other preservation efforts” (124). [1]. It was a packed hearing and all these people were bringing up challenges (to the proposal). It soars.”.
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