3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Our donor retention CRM expert friends at Bloomerang would point out the importance of building a fundraising plan around donor retention, a plan that includes CRM technology designed for this purpose. Discussion and debate. It’s all about the data.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. For more interesting uses of technology, please check out the TechSoup for Libraries blog , where you can find the most recent article in this month's series, " Interesting Uses of Technology: Social Media." Success in Second Life.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting.

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Tech Soup

MAY 22, 2009

To hear that Wikipedia has taken over the market is a little scary to me. Wikipedia is an open-source knowledge repository, which is fine, but one issue with open-source technologies continues to be quality control. Tags: E-Learning E-Learning Reference Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

When I attended the BoxWorks conference in San Francisco in September, one extraordinary session I attended was on emerging cloud technologies. Venture capitalists would refer to its state as stealth mode. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. Everything. Please log in and tell us.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I liked our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we compiled. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2008

A quick trip to the dictionary and Wikipedia: Authenticity refers to the truthfulness of origins, attributions, commitments, sincerity, devotion, and intentions. This disclosure came on the heels of a debate on nonprofit technology blogs about numbers only types of evaluation and how they don't tell the whole story.

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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? But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? I thought to myself.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Fortunately, the technology exists to help us answer some of these questions. If you notice that 75% of your audience likes The Daily Show, then you might consider adding references from the show to aid in your storytelling. The phrase is so popular that it even has it’s own Wikipedia page. Was the information not appealing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike. Every person who clicks on a Google search result, rates a movie on Netflix, or adds a photo to Flickr improves the overall experience for subsequent users.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2005

My point was simply that most of the non-profits I work with have far more crucial technology issues to resolve at this moment. There's a great deal of esoteric talk about tagging to be found out there - but I'd like to take this space to introduce new users to the technology. So sure, let's talk about tagging. social bookmarking.

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This use of the copyright law to encourage copying is refered to in FOSS circles as Copyleft. Wikipedia has published a list of software licenses that can give you some sense of how the definition of FOSS has fragmented. But Keuffel suggests in this piece that GPL is seriously out-of-date and needs to be rethought.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

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) Do you see opportunity in the middle ground?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

Scrum refers to this person as the "Product Owner". Agile and Xtreme methodologies have created a lot of excitement in the software development world in the last five years - there's no reason not to move these approaches to the daily tasks of technology management. In a minute I'll give the a five-minute intro to Scrum.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He’s working on the new Bookaccess program – and he’s working on Benetech’s larger mission – “Raising the Floor,” a phrase that refers to making technology accessible to all. Janet Kornblum Janet Kornblum began writing about technology in 1994 when she was deemed the newsroom expert because she could actually log on to the Internet.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Your technology vendors do not know the hot-button issues in your non-profit work. But your technology vendors are not. Image of George Bernard Shaw from Wikipedia Commons. So it never dawned on us for a minute that someone might not "just know" that having the source code is a good thing. What an insult!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Adding a new data point to it. Another example. True adoption of Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Mobile Marketing Watch is a blog about all things mobile technology and mobile commerce. e-Newsletter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. Months ago, I wrote about the potential power of disaggregation for museums , referring to the concept of the "ultimate mix tape" of greatest hits and personal favorites. What makes this so great?

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 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) 60) Search « Dreaming of a Wiki?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

The Sharing Economy -- the use of networked, often mobile, information technology to share goods and services -- offers nonprofits new possibilities for innovation and efficiency along with new paradigms to move from scarcity to abundance. Nonprofits should lead the sharing economy and demand more from the private sector.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Wikipedia takes center stage Nicholas Carr has been bemused for a good while now by the growing popularity of the publically editied Internet knowledge compendium Wikipedia. It's hard to find a topic where the Wikipedia entry is not among the top 10! A developer-written helpfile may miss the point entirely.

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