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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. 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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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. In this post, we hope to voice many of the tools, resources, and tactics that have been shared, in hopes of encouraging others around the world to get involved with the digital relief efforts."

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

M+R

Whose voices are you choosing to elevate? This doesn’t mean you need to turn your copy into a Wikipedia article. That pre-writing stage is also where you should be considering the ethical contours of your creative. What tropes or story elements might reinforce harmful stereotypes or otherwise be problematic?

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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via Global Voices Advocacy blog. video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); tools and websites. the crackdown on web 2.0 websites (e.g.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

Here are some of the things it currently does: It takes photos and videos by voice command and can upload them to the web. You can do Google searches by voice. Wikipedia article on smartglasses. You can also take a picture by winking your right eye. It also can map turn-by-turn directions for you.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant. Training materials from Rising Voices and other sources. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity.

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