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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS. Direct Content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Viddy :: viddy.com.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

See pages 47-48 of the report Grassroots Grantmaking : Embedding Participatory Approaches in Funding by Hannah Patterson, to learn more about the DRF/DRAF evaluation framework.]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 29, 2010

From Wikipedia : Customer relationship management is a broadly recognized, widely-implemented strategy for managing and nurturing a company’s interactions with clients and sales prospects. You should definitely read the report I mentioned in my earlier post. But what about social media as another form of communication?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Ars Technica reports that hackers are expanding their password cracking frontiers into Wikipedia, YouTube, song lyrics, and other works of literature or writing. Lovecraft story "The Call of Cthulu" and it is noted in a Wikipedia entry. But as this Ars Technica report points out, hackers are figuring this strategy out.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September. Discussion and debate. Did you know that YouTube views of Ice Bucket Challenge events have surpassed 1 billion … that’s with a “b”?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Event Reports. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. That’s all for now.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. Use your blog posts to provide commentary on the latest news, resources, reports, policies, summits or events you attended, and how this impacts people’s lives and the planet. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2013

Event Reports. Check out the NetSquared blog to keep on top of the gossip and reporting from our network: Burlington’s Amanda Levinson reports on Amy Sample Ward’s presentation about her new book “Social Change Anytime Everywhere” The Weather Gods tried to stop the event, but Vermonters are tough!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

Geekdad reports that Microsoft will discontinue Encarta at the end of 2009. Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. Encarta itself has a strange and fascinating history.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Nielsen reports that as of Q1 2010 , 23% of people with mobile devices now have a smartphone instead of a regular old boring/dumb cell phone. First, go to one of my favorite sites - Wikipedia. Wikipedia will sense that you are using a mobile device and will automatically display the version of the site that is optimized for mobile.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2010

According to Wikipedia , Geocoding is "…The process of finding associated geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes). It is also hoped that more donors will provide information and support the project in the future. read more.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

According to Wikipedia, or Nielsen Norman Group, an Evidence-Based User Experience Research Firm, responsive web design is an approach to web design aimed at allowing desktop webpages to be viewed in response to the size of the screen or web browser one is using to view a website or webpage. What is responsive web design?

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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. BusinessWeek reports that iPhones – unlocked iPhones in particular -- are becoming a form of currency.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2009

They do not use cartridges and are reported to use less toner and therefore you will need to change it less often, potentially saving you money and hassle. However, Wikipedia list some significant drawbacks including energy use and the potential for ink waste. Be careful of solid ink printers.

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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.). Gore, Berners-Lee and Cerf are the co-chairs of the first Campus Party USA next year in Silicon Valley. Welcome to the U.S., Campus Party — we need you. billion to date.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. SocialTNT: How to Use Friendfeed for Better PR - Although parts of this post assume you are interested in getting PR coverage from Silicon Valley reporters, it does give a nice overview of FriendFeed for newbies. It is intended as a rapid and engaging way to present information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

– Wikipedia. – Wikipedia. The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report. English, français, português y español, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based on the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries. NTEN: Restoring Trust in the Nonprofit Sector with Blockchain. Newly Released!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

According to Wikipedia, a griefer is "a slang term used to describe a player in an multiplayer video game who plays the game simply to cause grief to other players through harassment. Photo by Peacemaker. Griefing could be considered a malignant form of emergent gameplay."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Dear Beth: I want to compile a report for my Executive Director about the impact of our online organizing strategies. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. Facebook - to stay connected / reach out to potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I'm pleased to report NO! When students do a research paper without looking at wikipedia, the student research paper is far superior. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? And what if they put their paper into wikipedia. Nesson gave this annecdote. "Take for example.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Reading reports of the hatred being expressed at McCain/Palin rallies, dreary economic news, and reports that we have 100 months till the tipping point for climate change , I haven't really feel like getting out of bed, have you? For me, and for you, here are my 4 tips for getting through Bailout Election Malaise (BEM): 1.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. You can pre-order the report here.]. Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. Marshall Kirkpatrick , ReadWriteWeb. [Ed Ed Note: This piece was originally published on ReadWriteWeb.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” ” 2) Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS).

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

You need a story that editors and reporters will deem newsworthy – an interesting story people will read or watch on the news. Look at your organization’s work as if you are a reporter. . Online sources like Wikipedia can help you find additional publications if you have a broad area. But how do you land a news story?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

While a comprehensive 2003 report by Wenhong Chen and Barry Wellman rightly notes that "the digital divide is a continuum ranging from physical access, financial access, cognitive access, and content access to political access," they go on to assert that "Income is the most important factor that affects Internet diffusion.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

He has frequently devoted a blog to an email he's sent or a report he has drafted , reminding us that IT's communication with the community of users is as essential a part of any implementation as a new server or a software service pack. Tagged: npTech , IT , Ciborra additional reading: wikipedia aricle on Cibbora.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. The media here IS the service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Organizational reporting. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Someone you know well enough to call. Family members. Communications flows. Information flows.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

There are reports all over the web that long-term plans for inside jobs maybe on the rise. According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. Am I hiring the right people?

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