Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Most real-time search companies believe that's not enough to power a full index and rely on other sources of additional links to look at, often from the click-streams of users who have downloaded their software and opted-in to exposing their online behavior anonymously. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

Photo from GOOD Magazine Flickr Stream. 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. I chose UNICEF.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" non-threatening and inviting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. The Cambodia Bloggers Summit and the Boliva Blogosphere will have their first ever bloggers conferences on Blog Day ! Is your nonprofit planning to participate on Blog Day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! For others, the concept of ???public public information??? had connotations of finality, something you couldn???t t withdraw, something that once out there was set in stone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 3, 2006

The team can win increased support from users by showing a steady stream of perceptible improvements. The book presents an approach to software project management that, with some changes and adaptations, I've found useful in working with many of our ongoing clients. In a minute I'll give the a five-minute intro to Scrum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I've been using it as a technorati tag at the end of relevant posts on my blog, I've been grabbing the delicious feed to watch what other folks are finding, and I've added nptech as a topic in my furl archive to contribute to the stream myself. It's such a huge field, we'll have to see how helpful such a broad tag ends up being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

It lets you tap into a stream of people who care and may be committed to your organization, cause, program, or subject area. A tag is a label, but it's also a stream. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. master the reader first and start with just a few feeds to read. Discovery Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. You probably noticed that about my tag stream. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! sharpie.??? Tagging can get sloppy ???

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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. For blogs or content streams that are updated frequently, having a "top stories" or "titles only" view of the content is a good way to get right to the articles of specific interest to you. What makes this so great?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” Vine :: vine.co. VinePeek :: vinepeek.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. An Introduction to Activism on the Internet recently turned up in the tag stream, and while almost two years old, a solid primer. Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia , a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps.

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