Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

On Wikipedia synergy is defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. They also own Gmail, Android, Blogger, Picassa, and YouTube (just to name a few). 2) To tap into the power of synergy. That definition rings true (very loudly) when utilizing social media successfully.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

How can each of you take your cause viral, whether it’s an exciting announcement, a newly released YouTube video, or the nonprofit you represent? The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. The answer is simple yet confounding: C+C+C = C.

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3rd Sector Labs

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Did you know that the Ice Bucket Challenge has its own Wikipedia article ? Did you know that YouTube views of Ice Bucket Challenge events have surpassed 1 billion … that’s with a “b”? Discussion and debate. It’s true – Mashable reported this amazing data milestone in September.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

By far the most recognized wiki is Wikipedia. Wikipedia would not be possible without the support of its volunteer contributors, who help keep the site's content current. By relying on volunteers, Wikipedia can draw on anyone to share their knowledge on a topic, check facts, or accurately translate content. Building a Wiki.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2017

Wikipedia is another frequent starting point. Finally, YouTube is arguably the go-to place nowadays for really specific and short how-to videos. Get more out of Google by using its advanced search techniques. Check out this handy search primer for Bing. Search tricks can save you time by narrowing your search much faster.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. In the era of Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, both types of crisis require a rapid, social media response. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, 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. Based in the U.K.,

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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

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. When you move to the web, you have increasing returns to scale , but the number of people involved to affect the increasing returns are at a much larger scale (many more people, etc.). Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled. network, horizontal.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to those listed below, see also international public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Days. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your editorial calendar. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2011

So how can you take your cause viral, whether it's your proposed session, a newly released YouTube video, or the nonprofit you represent? The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay. The answer is simple, yet confounding: C+C+C = C.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The first generation in human history who regard behaviors like tweeting and texting, along with websites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Wikipedia as everyday parts of their social lives and their search for understanding.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Here are some of the stats: Youtube: IBC Videos Watched 1 BILLION+ times = one of the biggest video phenomenon in the history of the Internet. 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. million Twitter mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

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.); The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. s activity is the business model in for-profit ventures, like YouTube ? gift economy,??? the current term of art for this altruistic approach. People who???s

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core. Library 2.0 is what librarians call it when we apply these ideas to libraries.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Here's a synopsis of the screenplay from wikipedia: During World War II , a mild-mannered Slovak carpenter Tono Brtko ( Jozef Kroner ) is offered the chance to take over the sewing notions store of an old, near-deaf Jewish woman Rozália Lautmannová ( Ida Kamińska ) as a part of the enactment of an Aryanization. regulation in the town.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. YouTube - to host trailers and clips of the films we work with. Flickr - to host photos from events we have attended and hosted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue. How to Listen on YouTube by KD Paine 5. There are different readers that offer diffferent features and almost all are free. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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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. Video Sharing: Youtube and several inspired by YouTube including a Romanian video sharing platform. He also mentioned a Romanian wiki called MediaPedia.Ro.

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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. I was recently contacted by yet another Michael Hoffman who asked me to link to his website. Here it is.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 23, 2007

Michigan Launches M.S. Specialization in Social Computing: "Michigan Launches M.S. Specialization in Social ComputingANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23 -- Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. application like MySpace or Wikipedia. On Wikipedia? Think about potlucks from the 2.0 What is the collective item to which all are contributing on MySpace?

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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. It includes presence information (your avatar glows green if you're online) and chat while doing things like watching YouTube or Netflix videos. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter? Real-Time Publishing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

The extent to which I can learn from Wikipedia or waste time on Youtube is directly proportional to the volume of other users' participation--creators, critics, and spectators alike.

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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. Finally, here's a video on YouTube on how NOT to use Facebook and not to mention also very funny. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Christine.Net attended the Web 2.0 Expo Ignite!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 and asking for ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly. The Facebook Community Pages that were created by automating content from Wikipedia have been mostly removed from Facebook Search. Use YouTube’s video editing tools. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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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. While there are some sites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, that are fairly easy to understand, there are hundreds of others with no clear differentiated value. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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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. Lots of pointers to resources like Expert Voter which is similar to what you now see on YouChoose , it organizes the candidate youtube videos by issue. All the candidates.

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