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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A collection of economic and media trends and stats. 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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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A collection of economic and media trends and stats. 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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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A collection of economic and media trends and stats. 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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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

Wikipedia has a great primer on cognitive bias for amateur organizational psychologists. Sometimes we've led trends. Like many Web services, we were following the social media trend without realizing how much our perspective was skewed by bias of the Bandwagon Effect. Sometimes we've lagged behind them.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. and the trends driving it. What does this mean in an educational context ? Create collaborative, student-authored resources. work for each assignment.

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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A collection of economic and media trends and stats. 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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