Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. And, at the level of most nonprofits choosing software, this is, in fact, correct. But the real story is much more complicated.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Setting aside the problems with his numbers -- he notes that "While only 3.6% And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) What is a good framework for designing a social network analysis mapping project so you get the most out of it? Process Steps One important lesson is that you should really spend the time framing the problem or your goal.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

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. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

I'm not sure software innovation will do anything about easing ego problems, but it has certainly eased the need to travel between Virginia and Philadelphia to work on a document together. Probably the most dramatic wiki project is the wikiPedia - an online encyclopedia edited by -- the entire world. Self-evident, indeed!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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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. Transparancy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. While there are some sites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, that are fairly easy to understand, there are hundreds of others with no clear differentiated value. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Those days are long gone: Creating a website, which used to be a weekend project by the president’s niece, has become a large endeavor involving various vendors and consultants. Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0

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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. Brigade will merge Votizen and Causes to create a political organizing site that will that will “tackle the problem of declining citizen power and engagement in democracy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In response, many web sites are going on strike. Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. She hopes to use the tools she learned at Benetech – including new programming languages, codes and statistics – to work on human rights projects around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

Of course there is also the very important concern that the dominant people in the real world, even in social change movements, will also dominate the blogosphere to the detriment of everyone involved and the project as a whole. Can you tell me more about your work with wikis and nonprofits? How have nonprofits you're working with used wikis?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This type of collective approach is how we should approach every large-scale social problem. Some of her past research projects include the Nonprofit Compensation & Benefits Report and Arizona Giving & Volunteering publications. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild. A puppet feeds a condor chick.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

But as George Bernard Shaw told us: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." After a brief cool-down period the conversation resumed and they won the project. Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons. But it just goes to show how right ol' G.B.

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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. Why pay attention to it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Act 1: The Problem. 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. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

And that's where the opportunity--and the problem--begins. In 2008, I worked with one museum director for whom the word "wiki" is synonymous with "Wikipedia." If the metaphor you are using as a basis for a design project is fundamentally different from a colleague's metaphor, you have a problem.

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