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 Incorporating social media and the online world to bring the walk to live virtually. When you think about it, the idea of an ecosystem can be applied to many things in life.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Our volunteer list is long, but the active volunteers get to know one another virtually very quickly. The vast majority are members as well as volunteers; it’s the “virtual” neighborhood library. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 Bookshare is no different. at its core.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Capriza has developed what they call a virtualization-based approach that allows someone to make an internal organization mobile app for a department — in as little as a week. I envision a magical time when we'll all be our own little Wikipedias. Capriza.com — promises to revolutionize mobile apps.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. It’s of course this last capability, flexibility, that is so powerful for people with disabilities.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 22, 2007

Since the one-line nature of the Twitter post limits the amount of effort that can go into polishing these "miniblogs", I'm getting a virtual hailstorm of information this way. One of the more common uses I see my friends making of Twitter is to post a link to an interesting web-based resource. That's what this piece is about.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia. Project management tools for remote teams. Checkvist (Cool Online Checklist Collaboration Tool). Can tech help ease volunteers' pocketbook shock with gas prices? Donated or Discounted Online Collaboration Products.

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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. Griefing can turn a virtual event into an unpleasant experience. Griefers are the virtual world equivalent of trolls, cyberbullies, and hackers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. There is a history of virtual gift giving. Tara Hunt has some great examples and thinking in this post.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

– Wikipedia. A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security. – Wikipedia. NTEN: Restoring Trust in the Nonprofit Sector with Blockchain. Social Media Week: The Essential Guide to Blockchain for Brands. Bond: Top 11 Resources on Blockchain for Global Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. These products are entirely virtual and are distributed virtually, so the time from launch to editorial review is instantaneous. Does my virtual pet really need a social network? Churn rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Google Earth launches Virtual Telescope: Sky as noted by the Viralroots blog where you can see both GoogleEarth and the sky. Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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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. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years, including virtual worlds. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! There's a few recent posts on Mass Digging As Virtual Activism well worth a read. Susie's Blog, winning hearts and minds over to FOSS, points to an interesting article about how to convince management to approve free software. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. We need to stop focusing on protecting our stuff and start creating new physical analogs to these virtual tools—platforms for people to engage with our content on their own terms.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I kept sneaking glances at his screen, watching it fill with words like “Web 2.0,” “virtual worlds,” and pictures of kids tuning out teachers and tuning in their cellphones. Teachers don’t have to pretend that Wikipedia, YouTube, and other online tools don’t exist, or aren’t used by their students.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Check to make sure you are updated in places that matter: Guidestar , CharityNavigator , GreatNonprofits , Wikipedia , and GlassDoor.com. Look, if the generous profiteers at Kmart can start Black Friday at 6am on Thanksgiving, you can open your virtual doors early and count donations for your campaign starting Monday (or earlier).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

And twenty-five years later, the recovery program still includes virtually all of the original partner organizations and groups , as well as many new ones. Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets. This is success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. More detail ClickTracks Web Analytics Education Series, Virtual World : Feb 26 & 27, 2007 ??? The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. How do they navigate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

The same sort of engine which powers Wikipedia can be put to work across a number of different “platforms”. It estimates that 16% of the population is hyperconnected and identifies that hyperconnected people have these traits: The boundary between work and personal time is virtually non-existent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2007

sites that revolve around content, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, behave this way. This can be physical in the museum, or virtual on the web. The smallest set are the “contributors” who actually upload videos they have made. THE JUDGE: Wherever comfortable, give people a way to judge and classify content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. ” If you haven’t done so already, it would be wise to search for your nonprofit on Wikipedia to see if anyone has created a page for your nonprofit, because that now means you also have a page on Qwiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. 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. NpTech Themes Nptech Tag News: The NpTech Community site can be found at: [link]. Marnie Webb offers more post conference call reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Charity Badges, Widgets, Virtual World Fundraising and More. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What would your institution be in a world where you have more non-English-speaking (real and virtual) visitors than English speakers? The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia.

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