Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Seattle, Washington: Project Scheduling for Successful Outcomes. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

a nonprofit project), Golden-i , SixthSense. It was developed at Singularity University and uses technology from the NASA Mars Rover project. The National Institutes of Health is the primary funder of the project. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. Google Glass Explained. While Google Glass. Others include EyeTap. (a

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. It is also cross platform. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). This project has a small footprint, and is designed to be easily embedded in other Java projects. The others are most likely of interest to pretty small niche groups, for specific kinds of projects. It is also cross platform. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? By signing up to work with nonprofits, you've already served notice that you're ready to spend your social capital -- to write checks, to choose projects and programs, to hire, to conduct research -- in ways you believe will address digital (and other forms of) inequality.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. The current version is fairly limited, but it certainly gives you a sense of the editing style, and the overall intent of the project. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications The generally recognized inventor of the spreadsheet is Dan Bricklin. Take a look.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. net2 nptech nonprofit activism volunteer Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. The GPL has been critical to the open-source movement - the next most popular open-source license accounts for only 6% of FOSS projects. 3) many open-source projects are international in effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization. NpTech 101: How I read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days by Chas Grundy. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. This is how the American Red Cross started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Everyone is people.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

There's a book that made a big impression on me a couple of years ago, and changed the way I manage a number of my software projects. The book presents an approach to software project management that, with some changes and adaptations, I've found useful in working with many of our ongoing clients. The purpose of Scrum.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

How did you discover the nptech tag ? How have you been using the nptech? I've been using it as a technorati tag at the end of relevant posts on my blog, I've been grabbing the delicious feed to watch what other folks are finding, and I've added nptech as a topic in my furl archive to contribute to the stream myself.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. The centerpiece of the philanthropic project is a cloud networking solution that’s free (forever) to 501(c)(3) organizations that need ten licenses or fewer.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NetSquared, a project of TechSoup, is awarding a share of $100,000 in prize money, and a trip to the NetSquared Conference, to the top 20 winners of the NetSquared Mashup Challenge. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

As some of you know, part of my work is being the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that facilitates the adoption of social web tools by nonprofits and NGOs. You don't need to have tech expertise to submit a project to the Challenge, just an idea for a change you want to make that could be facilitated by a mashup.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. Tags: nptech Why pay attention to it?

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. The project had some positive outcomes: we fixed an archaic registration and login process, and Facebook Connect kicked off a larger social media effort that is still paying dividends for VolunteerMatch today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. There is a write-up of the project here. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later. For additional project designs and ideas, see the following case studies: Craft Emergency Resources.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

After a brief cool-down period the conversation resumed and they won the project. Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons. Of course this networking professional was not familiar with this issue, and meant nothing of the sort. But it just goes to show how right ol' G.B. Description and Attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare. " Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. This is one of several powerpoint presentations now archived in SlideShare and also included in a NpTech History wiki (anyone can join and contribute.). Kikono - Digg for NpTech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. DEMO 07 NpTech Bytes: DEMO 07 is a conference focused on cutting edge and emerging technology, mostly for the business sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

and then talk a little bit about it’s implications in the nptech field, and then my own view of it from the neo-luddite perspective. The Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0 And, I think that there is a lot that the nptech field can get from using Web 2.0 Before I plunge in to talk about the individual parts of Web 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

And what's best, Ashokan is located in a valley that is a complete wireless blindspot - so if you need assistance on your project next week, don't call me! 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.

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