Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 28, 2006

curmudgeon extraordinaire ," posted a piece gloating over what he claimed was the demise of Wikipedia; or at least of its vaunted commitment to open editing. In the wake of contraversies over false information found in its pages, Wikipedia has a asserted a modest level of page protection. Who are they?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Every year, Wikipedia runs a fundraising campaign to support its operations. The 2014 online giving campaign just wrapped up and there are plenty of lessons that other nonprofits can learn from Wikipedia. Here are five things Wikipedia does that are worth incorporating into your own online giving campaign: 1.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Have you ever thought about building an online space where different people can easily share their expertise on a subject or project? A wiki is a website maintained collaboratively by a community of contributors focusing on a particular subject or project. By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. What Is a Wiki?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business."

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?s shovel-ready?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? See our ideas for other " Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects ". Global Energy Observatory ?

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2 Podcasting. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Text messaging.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? I can’t tell you how many places I have read discussions and debates about so-called “visibility projects” How do you replicated them? Discussion and debate. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2010

How can this project be sustainable? According to Wikipedia , "crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call." Who can help? Has this been done before? What is the best route?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

And, the focus of MEL is generally on evaluating grantee projects or organizations, rather than on the grantmaker and its practices. Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that stewards Wikipedia, regularly asks for feedback from stakeholders and publishes what they share, along with any changes that are made to the programs from that feedback.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2023

Getting a strong start with large-scale projects like capital campaigns. While all donors and donations are important for your nonprofit to progress, you should put special time and effort into identifying and building relationships with major donors for this reason.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The first session, Big Data and Philanthropy, featured two interesting projects that can greatly benefit nonprofits. Another session, "How Big Data Is Enabling Innovative Approaches to Improving Health and Wellness," featured speakers involved in a variety of data projects. Data and Philanthropy. Data for Health.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. offers virtual volunteers opportunities to help with two main projects , ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” ” We all do it. The video of the process may seem overwhelming, but can modify it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Traveling Project , a travel blog by "TravelDude." Traveling Project , a travel blog by "TravelDude." Flavours of Italy , the blog of Flavours Italian Cookery Holidays, an Italian holiday tour operator. Flavours of Italy , the blog of Flavours Italian Cookery Holidays, an Italian holiday tour operator.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Our goal in working with the Internet Archive on the Open Library would be to experiment with a Wikipedia-style “please donate if you can” model to offer a global solution for free to everybody. Our Born Accessible project means working closely with publishers to see that they put accessibility features in all of their mainstream ebooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Wikimedia is the non profit that operates and manages all Wikimedia projects from Wikipedia to Wikibooks, Wikiversity to Wikispecies.). (Much more detail outlining the process and the facilitation can be found here: “Wikimedia strategic planning wiki,” [link].

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

There are also apps for Microsoft Office SharePoint and Microsoft Project as well. Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. To learn more about apps, visit TechSoup's App It Up project.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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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. Heavy Metal Umlaut ??? Fast forward three years later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2008

Zena Weist is wondering about whether Chris Brogan's Twitter Pack Project can be defined as community sourcing which distinctly different than crowd sourcing. Once we have a definition that we are comfortable with as a good enough starter, we'll post community sourcing on wikipedia. If you have not yet donated $10.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

However, Wikipedia list some significant drawbacks including energy use and the potential for ink waste. Conservatree has some recommendations about choosing the right paper for your project and finding a good source. Paper Types: Steer clear of printers that need specialty paper to print text.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2005

Untitled Document : "TechSoup NetSquared Project to Remix Web for Social Change; Call for Participation in Using Web 2.0 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- CompuMentor's TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) today announced a call for participation in its Net2 ('NetSquared') ([link] project. to Transform Nonprofit Sector SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

TechSoup’s community boost_r project invited Manchester’s Steven Flower to reveal his top five secrets for holding community events. Baltimore, MD: June Tech & Social Change Baltimore Meetup: Wikipedia. Wednesday, June 5. Portland, OR: Getting People to Click DONATE on Your Nonprofit Website. Thursday, June 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 tools and websites. The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). The TechSoup Global Network , NetSquared, GuideStar International, and NGOsource projects facilitate philanthropic support, data transparency and shared innovation around the world. Welcome to the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Is this one of those flashy third world technology demonstration projects where a prestigious organization and a digerati provide a wad of cash to impose a technology solution that gets a lot of media hoopla, but isn't sustainable? This project encouraged inmates to form singing groups and have temporary release to do performances.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Provide Context.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 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. Provide Context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. I will be preparing a separate post about this project. The purpose of the project is to keep mental health patients to share their ideas and experiences. .

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia. One of the communities that inspired this development - Planetwork has held a vision for how these emerging open standards could be used for social change.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

Seattle, Washington: Project Scheduling for Successful Outcomes. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Morrisville, North Carolina: Spring Fling Networking Event. Vancouver, British Columbia: Open Data for Nonprofits. Thursday, March 19, 2015.

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