Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Have you made a video like this? Would love to see your other examples of annual reports that break the mold!

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Tags: Marketing and Communication #nptech Non-Profit. When you think about it, the idea of an ecosystem can be applied to many things in life. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout? For others, the concept of ???public

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As my colleague Jim Lynch noted in his January NPTech News column, wearable technology is hot this year. At the MWC keynote, Zuckerberg laid out his vision for a low-cost data plan that would include basic search and social networking and Wikipedia access – essentially all text-based services. Image 1: miuet.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Wikipedia provides a good formal definition : “Web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. Tags: Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites. Cindy Leonard, Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. Heavy Metal Umlaut ??? Fast forward three years later.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read. PHP is one of many programming languages. Plone, for instance is written in Python.

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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. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN’s Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Wikipedia came up with a great idea , one we encourage you to steal. If you like your stories in bite-size, infinitely repeating packages, GIF.tv will keep you occupied for seconds at a time. Lots of seconds. It's like Halloween candy for your soul! At a loss for what to do with QR codes? Just watch out for hijackers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information. Some of you may be wondering what the heck FriendFeed is as well.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. But never forget that no matter how bright any given luminary may be, as Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg first noted in 1949, we have officially entered a world where everyone is smarter than anyone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Wikipedia article on smartglasses. nonprofit technology news NPTech news wearable computing Google Glass singularity' CNET: The definitive guide to not being a Glasshole. How Stuff Works: How Brain-computer Interfaces Work. Images: Jim Lynch and Kevin Lo of TechSoup. Do you have any thoughts on the frontiers of nonprofit technology?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Fixing Wikipedia Articles link [via Michael Gilbert's weekly Nonprofit Online News] More and more often we find that wikipedia is the first place we are pointed to when seeking information about a person or organization online. Suppose you look up your NPO and find incorrect information in the article? That's what this piece is about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Over the last decade the discussion around nonprofit technology ( #nptech ) has primarily been social media, mobile technology, and online fundraising, however as the internet enters its next phase, nonprofits need to better understand some of the more complicated concepts that will shape the internet and its use in the decades to come.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. nptech time you net2 By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 23, 2006

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Considering Dan invented the entire idea of the electronic spreadsheet as we know it, we'd be fools not be interested. The generally recognized inventor of the spreadsheet is Dan Bricklin. Take a look.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Much has been made of the possibility that technology will mitigate inequality by allowing the have-nots to leapfrog certain historical aspects of development.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. Tags: Data marshall kirkpatrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter? Real-Time Publishing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Tagged: npTech , IT , Ciborra additional reading: wikipedia aricle on Cibbora. The moral for me: It's impossible to overestimate the level and quality of interaction between technologists and staff needed to keep users "hospitable" to the technology. review of his book "The Labyrinths of Information"

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Nonprofit technology take home lesson : MySQL is certainly the leader – it’s most commonly thought of as the “M&# in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), which is a nptech web mainstay.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Nonprofit technology take home lesson : MySQL is certainly the leader – it’s most commonly thought of as the “M&# in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), which is a nptech web mainstay.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. When you look at how others have tagged it, you will see the tag nptech commonly used. Now you know that lots of folks tag articles about non-profits and technology as nptech. tags: tagging , nptech , web2.0 social bookmarking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

net2 nptech nonprofit activism volunteer Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. If you know of some fabu nonprofits that are using these tools and want them to be highlighted, just register (if you haven't already), login, go to the "Put Your Voice in the Mix" page: click on "submit your case study" and fill out the form.

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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. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. Should I click that "OK" button?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. NpTech 101: How I read 2,000 Articles in 30 Days by Chas Grundy. Make sure you establish good RSS habits. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Clean house often, RSS subscriptions tend to pile up.

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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

APRIL 20, 2006

Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented. Tags: nptech , FOSS , GPL Currently a GPL draft for version 3 is under discussion - some 8000 organizations have been involved in it.

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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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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. Today in the United States, 25 percent of children under age 5 are Hispanic; by 2050, that percentage will be almost 40 percent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

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. He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together.

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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

The project also works closely with volunteer translators at Wikipedia’s translatewiki.net. NPTech Organization of the Month. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report? box.org salesforce microsoft nonprofit technology news nptech NPTech news' Domino’s has vowed to not pay ransom.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

Tags: nptech , tech_planning , scrum

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