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. Security researcher Yiannis Chrysanthou had no trouble cracking the passphrase "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn1."

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Wikipedia Movie Script Canada 60

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Research shows that if you give stuff every day you are less likely to be depressed. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. people are judged by how much they give, not how much they have. the gift always tarvels/what does around comes around. And that’s true with health, too. loosely coupled.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Lack of resources, expertise, leadership buy-in, choosing the right software tools (or the right strategic partners) all while trying to stay current on the latest marketing trends is overwhelming. I’ve recently come across a tool called Hotjar , that analyzes how people behave when they land on your site.

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that uses data to show money's influence on politics. The organization provides tools that show campaign contributions, legislative votes, and patterns of influence. Additionally, the actual size of the data came into question.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. They don't take an “everything and kitchen sink” approach to providing tools that can manipulate the data. What are you waiting for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2011

He didn’t go as far a saying that granular privacy controls would spark a revolution in sharing, but someone on the call mentioned research by Norman Sadeh to support this theory. According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. They don’t take an “everything and kitchen sink” approach to providing tools that can manipulate the data.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. They don’t take an “everything and kitchen sink” approach to providing tools that can manipulate the data.

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Data Story New York City New York 67

Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2009

According to nonprofit author Allison Fine, “Social media [in particular] fits into the lives of working women much better than traditional communications tools. Tags: Marketing Research. You can work the night shift and respond to email in the morning. You can have four kids and read a blog during nap time.&#

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Wikipedia Blogher Summary Nonprofit 53

.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Then, I began researching common myths. Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The leap from reality to make-believe is easy.

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Language Problem Knowledge System 221

NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. It's also a tool for achieving organizational success. If you get nothing else from this post, please repeat after me: diversity is a tool for helping you achieve your business objectives.

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Demographics United States California Baltimore 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. .

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Analysis Social Network America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Alfred Sloan used ROI in the 1920's at General Motors Source: Wikipedia I'm in the process of writing about and prepping several workshops for nonprofits about Social Media and ROI, known as "Return on Investment." ROI processes, particularly as part of the budgeting process , are familiar to many nonprofits.

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ROI Social Media Media Measure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

For more details, see this wikipedia entry. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. Of course, the folks participating would have to be comfortable using FriendFeed and make a habit of it - but might be a good way to support a team listening effort with free tools. What do you think?

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Mohammed Diop, of Mali , presumably one of the very people OLPC wants to convince: "It is a very clever marketing tool. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? " Who could argue with that? Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments.

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.)

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Open Source Database Open Language 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.)

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Open Source Database Open Language 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. I left this session with some new insights about the networks and social media tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

If you know of some fabu nonprofits that are using these tools and want them to be highlighted, just register (if you haven't already), login, go to the "Put Your Voice in the Mix" page: click on "submit your case study" and fill out the form. Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes.

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Netsquared Case Study Aggregator Wikipedia 40

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence.

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A section of the e-newsletter entitled “Resource Spotlight” features a new tool in each edition. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. Should I click that "OK" button? There is no real protection anywhere in life.

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Professional China Script Search 40

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. The fact is, these are powerful tools that are reshaping the way people use the Internet, just as the Search Engine did a few years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Young Einstein. Learning Goals.

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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. shows us how to screencast with Linux and other open source tools! Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Freecharity.org.uk

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Netsquared Nptech Summary Project 50

Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

AUGUST 13, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

After spending all that energy and time researching, writing, and editing 75,000+ words about social and mobile media best practices for nonprofits – living and breathing it for three months straight – it was frustrating, heart-breaking, mind-boggling even to have to let it go and accept that the book was going to be imperfect.

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Social Media Social Chapter Media 253

Care2

JULY 10, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level?

Social Media 34

Social Media Trend Advocacy Online 34

Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

APRIL 1, 2006

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Forum One

DECEMBER 23, 2005

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections. Developers of the ECHO project are exploring new ways to use web technology to bring native voices into museum exhibits and research. Who's sharing authority and how? Their task is both especially important and challenging.

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2005

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. We had a great discussion about how government agencies are using social media, and how the research community can support their efforts. We also saw some.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52