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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Part of my objective was to show the unintended consequences of Internet censorship bills like SOPA and PIPA (SOPA's Senate buddy bill), responding to alerts from organizations I trust like the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 November 16, 2006 I bet you thought I’d stopped reading? He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Third Anniversary of Screencasting: Micro Screencasting? Jing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wonder if can include these types of screencasts in the genre of " micro-media " -- on demand remote technology learning and technical support. Here's his clarification: I always like to point out, as Wikipedia currently says, that I only invited readers of my blog to propose names, and selected the term screencast.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. But I'd like to see nonprofits and hear nonprofit technology practitioners take on this. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. . Technology makes it increasingly easy to be removed from the field and practice “armchair development”. Please keep in mind .

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! For me, the web and 2.0