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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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It being 2015 the first place I looked is Wikipedia (of course) and found this: Skills Management. Skills are usually defined in a skills matrix consisting of a list of skills, a grading system, and what it means to be at a particular level for a skill. So what IS skills management? Terrific, a Wiki about skills management!

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Not all Learning Management Systems are created equally. This could be as simple as integration with your HRIS to as foreign as merging the capabilities of two separate Learning Management Systems. When we say granular control at Gyrus Systems, we mean granular control. "Title 21 CFR Part 11" Wikipedia.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Participatory approaches to M&E invite us to think about which belief systems are privileged in our work, whose knowledge and priorities matter most, and why we do the work we do in the first place. As grantmakers, we can reconsider traditional monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches from start to finish.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Decreasing returns to scale , aka ‘one more heave’ and ‘lessons must be learnt’ – As the number of people involved in the system increases, the returns diminish. Decreasing return systems are tightly coupled: Prize consistency and coordination. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. PledgeBank.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 6, 2011

However, how that HTML, CSS and JS is generated varies depending on the system underneath. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are CMS systems that are written in PHP. This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Keeping content (like event descriptions) consistent across systems. It is a scalable content management and system integration platform of choice.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

It’s actually because someone included it in a Wikipedia Article (no, it wasn’t me.). The proprietary consolidation of the CRM/Donation management system space continues apace. Here’s the top 10 list for 2008: 1) Remember when 1 MB was alot ? I wrote this post back in 2005, and it is the most popular in 2008!

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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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. government is working on a new warning system to replace their oft criticized five-color coded terror index, and according to a new document obtained by The Associated Press, they're turning to Facebook and Twitter." What is this new network-centric world?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. AI systems are composed of modules that can be independently developed and replaced.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 4, 2009

I don't know about you, but I have always found the terminology around telephone systems a little complex and unnecessarily confusing and I come from an IT background. Wikipedia can help you decipher some of it. PBX, POTS, PSTN, Trunk Lines. What does all that mean? What is a virtual PBX? read more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2017

As a result, website experiences have had to change significantly—from the way websites are designed and developed to the Content Management System (CMS) used and search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. What is responsive web design?

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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).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

It's a security cloud service that will address this problem: Most IT systems are fortressed. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. Illumio.com — is not launched yet. Venture capitalists would refer to its state as stealth mode. Do you have an emerging cloud service you like?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The Gear 2 and Gear Neo are smartwatches powered by Samsung's own Tizen operating system. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. I'm not quite sure how to make this work, but I expect that in 10 years we will have much smarter "collective" systems that leverage small bits of time, knowledge, etc from large groups. This is my first experiment in solving this problem.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

IP3 is a nonprofit social venture founded by Center for Applied Research and Environmental Systems (CARES), a center at the University of Missouri that makes public data more accessible by turning it into visualizations. CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

We installed the Open Sans font in Part 1, so that should be available in Photoshop like any other font on your system. (If More information on colors is available in many places online, but Wikipedia explains it very well. Add the Header. If it's not, revisit that step.). Before we add the text, let's add one more guide.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. But these systems require the reader to filter out fluff, dreck, and irrelevant content. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. That’s where curation comes in to lend a helping hand. Hard to use.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all." To encourage all interested people to understand and analyze energy systems and their impacts on the environment. * See Thomas Friedman?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

"(T)o provide a platform for understanding, visualizing and analyzing global energy systems that will help the world accelerate the transition to cheap clean energy for all.". There has been a rising consensus that we need to transform our global energy system to reduce energy usage and to shift to less carbon intensive energy sources.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. "We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature…” These great qualities of ideas led to our legal system regulating the propagation of ideas differently than physical objects.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

This software as a service model of computing has the added environmental and budgetary benefit of needing a less robust computer system, servers, and installed software to host these applications. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

No, there are scores of companies building and selling systems today that deliver very real value via the real-time web. Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. Here's our list of ten cool companies or services that make use of real-time web in what they do: 10.

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See3

JANUARY 14, 2008

I still need some help with this so that we can dislodge the evil Michael Hoffman from his Google and Wikipedia rankings. Blogroll (C)Systems AVC Beth’s Blog Christine Herron Deborah Elizabeth Finn Donordigital Emily’s World Getting Attention Gift Hub Philanthromedia Social Edge TechSoup © Copyright 2010 See3. Here it is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Although I’ve been using databases for a while, I’ve decided that I’m going to focus specifically on open source databases for the next while, and, in particular, the different kinds of open source solutions that are possible for desktop database systems, or systems that might be server-based, but need a desktop front end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media. I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. The First C: Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

They are also looking at how to bring this type of program into the school system in Jamaica. 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.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

In Ciborra's approach, the user of a system -- the "actor" typically designated by a stick figure in standard system diagrams -- must be understood as a person and not a robot. The anonymous IT director blogging at Today I Cried reminded me of this in several recent posts that chronicle a systems upgrade he's been in charge of.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

The nonprofit Wadsworth Center in New York is developing an in-home brain computer interface system for use by severely paralyzed people to make communication possible for them. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. It’s basically typing with the mind. The National Institutes of Health is the primary funder of the project.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

It morphs this way and transmogrifies that way and reveals new cracks in the systems we use each and every day -- from our cellphones to ATMs to voting machines -- providing fertile ground for those with malicious intentions to infiltrate our data and productivity. Wolfe , Marin Institute. Security is always changing and evolving.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Even an organization with the marketing muscle and international support of OLPC can't avoid infighting over whether or not they should build a version of their system featuring Microsoft's distinctly unfree Windows XP. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Money, it's a drag.

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