AFP Blog

MAY 18, 2015

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap helps Nepal earthquake response | Opensource.com : " One interesting effort has been from the crowdsourced mapping community, especially on OpenStreetMap.org, a free and open web map of the world that anyone can edit (think the Wikipedia of maps.)

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2015

Did you avoid the Wikipedia entry? What many people don’t realize is that.org is an open domain for social good – meaning that individuals, businesses and companies can register this domain, in addition to nonprofits, in order to promote their cause or mission. Think about the last time you pulled up your search engine of choice.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Technology. Open Data Leads to Development: Is This Wishful Thinking? Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Data, Open Education, and Open Access for Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Media, NGOs, and Romania View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. It has Web 2.0

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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. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

These organizations house data for a combined total of three million NGOs worldwide. The big news is that the new draft taxonomy is now live and online and open to public comment. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source." Chad McEvoy of Global Giving is the BRIDGE project manager.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. The Icommons.org has some excellent blog posts and resources about open content that may be of interest to nonprofits. Here's a number crunching perspective on its recent growth.

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