M+R

JULY 10, 2023

What tropes or story elements might reinforce harmful stereotypes or otherwise be problematic? This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. The story you are telling, the argument you are making, the phrasing you have chosen all make perfect sense. Whose voices are you choosing to elevate?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Why do we tell stories? The amazing thing about the web is what we can do with those impulses, stories, and gifts. We don’t own the stories, we are stewards of the stories. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. What is it about the health community that’s different?

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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. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Let me offer one piece of advice: let’s not get distracted by the story and instead focus on the epilogue – the Ice Bucket Epilogue: it’s about the data. Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Discussion and debate.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. org on Climate Change and Building a Movement – "Social Media Coordinator, Joe Solomon took some time to explain what 350 really means, talk about transforming community inspiration into political power, and share a story about how his work with 350.org

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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. Password hackers are using some new tactics to break into your online accounts.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

RAWA Fund, for instance, has used grantee self-assessment based on narrative, story-telling methodologies, as a basis for evaluation. Other participatory grantmakers have developed new MEL tools to better reflect a power shift to grantee perspective on impact.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Read through this story about How wolves boosted an entire ecosystem you’ll see that every part of the ecosystem matters. But for now we’ll focus on the non-profit world. What’s an Ecosystem?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

We've also got some more great resources on our blog – on how to tell stories with maps , video , even paid advertising ! If you like your stories in bite-size, infinitely repeating packages, GIF.tv Wikipedia came up with a great idea , one we encourage you to steal. will keep you occupied for seconds at a time.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story We touched on this principle above.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Did you know that there are over 156 million public blogs, according to Wikipedia. Tone – Posts should have a conversational tone and attempt to tell a story. That's a lot of competition for all you nonprofit campaigners and bloggers. How do you make your blog stand out? Frogloop's got you covered. Is it activists?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Vancouver, Canada: Video for Nonprofits: Finding your Story. The power of wikipedia to drive traffic to your nonprofit was the subject of Kate Bladow ’s recent event report from Baltimore. Minneapolis, MN: August #NPTech Social Club. Victoria, Canada: Growing Your Digital Fundraising — E-Blasting 101. Thursday, August 15.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

One effective way to transform your data from an afterthought into a powerful communications product is through visualizations that help tell your story. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Focus the Story. Speak With Numbers. Reveal Change.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Wikipedia Searches for ALS : 2.89 I think what is most captivating, and something that Slaughter and I discussed, is the statistic on Wikipedia searches. So, when you think about building your ice bucket challenge or your next large campaign, make the story of your mission the front and center of everything.

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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. Got a wiki development/facilitation nonprofit story you'd like to share with a couple of annotated screenshots?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2010

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. As he shared the story, I had some questions about weaving offline/online collaboration within networks. I learned so much and quickly wanted to share a few insights. One of my favorite quotes: "At the end of the day, networks are piles of people.” .

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Community Commons encourages nonprofits and other health organizations to actively contribute data by providing free webinars on how to use the tools as well as various ways to submit data and stories about their communities. Privacy and Definitions. In conversations about data, privacy is something that always comes up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I want to be able to tell the story of our online campaigns in a narrative way. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything. What are some things that I should be looking for?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

The Bookshare story Bookshare is a real example of the confluence of how all of these exciting developments were able to drive an innovative new way of addressing a social problem, and demonstrating the potential of what ebooks can do.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Wikipane (PowerPoint 2013, Word 2013) helps you look up answers quickly by bringing Wikipedia content available directly in a Microsoft Office task pane. Microsoft has released a total of five Bing apps for Microsoft Office, including the ones listed here. Read more about them in Microsoft's Bing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

on December 10th, they are asking folks to create a video sharing a story about what image first opened you eyes to human rights abuses. (You In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. You can find the information here.) regulation in the town.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 27, 2007

Wikipedia and Primals Seeds' guerilla gardening entries (via Mancubist's Guerilla Gardening in Urbis) Treehuggers' Sean Canavan--Guerilla Gardener Extraordinaire. Current TV's story about Richard Reynolds. NPR's story, Gardeners Brighten London Under Cover of Dark. Grab Your Trowel and Get Dirty!

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See3

JANUARY 14, 2008

It is a story really about how the web connects people who otherwise would never know each other. I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Here it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

There is another course called "Tell Your Story" where the inmates tell their story by giving them the mike. 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? Nesson gave this annecdote.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

"But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Naples, Florida: Telling Your Story: Using Video as a Medium for Spreading Your Message. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. Vancouver, British Columbia: Digital Storytelling — Production to Distribution. New Orleans, Louisiana: Putting NOLA on the Product Hunt Map. Seattle, Washington.

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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

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. It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. . Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

One of my favorite articles was "The American Family Grows Up" by Neil Pollack which describes how, "middle-class American families are being forced to live, almost entirely, without a net", which he exemplifies with a story about his son putting a rock up his nose.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. "If you're looking at an individual story a human will beat a machine to death," says real-time text analysis service Lexalytics , "but on the aggregate a machine will do the same to a human." Real-Time Publishing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You need to begin with sharing some stories about how other nonprofits are getting value from listening. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. This is how the American Red Cross started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. " Jason is spot on. More about social media tools for philanthropy from Tactical Philanthropy. Holly Ross points to Robin Good's Beginner Guide to Facebook.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But the real story is much more complicated. The Wikipedia definition -[link] – suggests in fact that the opposite is true, “From the software vendor’s standpoint, SaaS has the attraction of providing stronger protection of its intellectual property and establishing an ongoing revenue stream&#.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

These anecdotes are a small fraction, to be sure, of the many stories where people transcended lines of interest and organization and worked together. There are many more — stories of individuals and groups successfully working together by demonstrating empathy and respect. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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