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Using games to collect valuable data
A friend just pointed me to http://www.gwap.com/gwap/ which is a collection of games intended to use the power of distributed people power to collect/build valuable data sets. The Nasa Clickworker program broke ground on this concept... which was inspired by the success of Wikipedia. Another recent entry in the field was the Free Rice game, where you solve a vocabulary puzzle and for each one you get right, a sponsor donates $n to a food aid organization. What's different about Gwap is that the
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It's not the Blue Screen of Death, it's the Blue Screen of Sloth
LOLnptech.Org - Comic relief for the nonprofit technology community
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Online fundraising: growing fast, getting harder to do
A new study, the 2008 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, (done by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services has some useful facts, culled from the experiences of a number of nonprofits online: The total amount raised online increased by 19% from 2006 to 2007. Open rates have fallen from 21.3% to 17.6%. Click-through rates have dropped from 4.9% to 3.8%. My experience is similar. Revenue coming to nonprofits through the web is growing by double digits every year. We no doubt have a few more years of that
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I can't run this nonprofit's information systems without massive dosages of caffeine.
LOLnptech.Org - Comic relief for the nonprofit technology community
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Functionalism Metrics for Conservation Websites
My amazing colleagues Drew Bernard and Shawn Kemp are burning up the internet tubes connecting Portland to Bellingham with some great thinking about how to apply “functional thinking” to environmental groups’ websites. I love to see this kind of high-powered big-picture thinking in public. Tags: websites, nptech
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May 14, Jonny’s Par-tay talks gender, class, color and tech with Digital Sista Shireen Mitchell
To watch the show CLICK HERE Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital divide, why we should care, and what we can do to create a society where the benefits of technological literacy are available to all. Shir
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May 14, Jonny’s Par-tay talks gender, class, color and tech with Digital Sista Shireen Mitchell
Come Par-tay with Shireen Mitchell (digitalsista on twitter), the founder and director of Digital Sisters, a DC based nonprofit which promotes and provides tech education and enrichment for women and their children who are traditionally underserved. We are going to look at how gender, class, and color factor into the digital divide, why we should care, and what we can do to create a society where the benefits of technological literacy are available to all. Shireen has been a geek since back
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Follow the nonprofit pulse
Follow the nonprofit pulse When I saw Eduardo Bejar‘s tweet this morning announcing nonprofit pulse, I almost came undone. And have been peppering him with wish list items since: RSS-enable the bits — the most shared lins and the tweets — to make it easy to move it around via things like Sprout (as well as subscribe and all the other RSS goodness) Filter the replies out of the cloud (or provide that as an option anyway) add a search box I suggest because I love. Seriously. Good stuff and a
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Web Sites, TWO!
I told Surya that his web site idea was a little like a one-celled animal that quite naturally divides in two and better not divide again because FOUR web sites would be more than I could manage in three weeks. But we had a really wonderful talk this morning and it's decided: they don't have a decent web site and we have a very simple and easy solution for them. I'll write more about this at home and post tomorrow, I hope.
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【译文】慈善组织运用新技术的伯恩霍尔兹法则
原文在这里，借此机会用了译言的翻译平台，用户体验不错。 慈善组织运用新技术的伯恩霍尔兹法则， 1.1 ： 慈善组织运用新技术的速度和周期往往遵照一个基本可预测的模式，而和技术无关。这种模式是： 阶段零 – 忽略新技术的使用。 第一阶段：运用一项新的工具去筹款。 (比如这个iphones 上的程序） 第二阶段：(在bet2give 的案例中，第一和第二阶段同时发生) 运用慈善给予作为吸引顾客去其他商业模式的一种手段（如good2gether或goodsearch ） 第三阶段：使用技术工具宣传慈善事业的现状（见几乎每一个基金会网站） 阶段 3.5：与此同时，当创新者发现降低交易成本和全球关注所带来的影响时，真正的变化将开始发生（如 globalgiving或networkforgood） 。 第四阶段：使用技术去改变慈善实践 (如 Packard Foundation’s Nitrogen Wiki ). 第五阶段：开始参加一些相关会议，在那里学到一些新技术应用，而且这些应用逐渐作为主流事件被讨论。（ globalgiving和networkforgood ）
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PlusThree Podcast
Listen to this Non-Profit Tech Blog interview with Juan Proano of PlusThree. PlusThree is another of the new breed of nonprofit CRM vendors with a very interesting pricing structure! Please click on the link above to read the rest of this story...
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Creating Bridges to Change
Creating Bridges to Change Intel’s Perry Gruber has a good post up at CSR@Intel about how people can come together, with and without traditional NGOs and development organizations, to work on the tough problems of the world. Perry writes: But when you consider the upstarts and the results they’re producing, it’s plausible that in the not-too-distant future “development” and “aid” will be more directly dispensed by “we the people” instead of being bureaucratically administered on our behalf b
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MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "Inaugural partners in the project are Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media), and Twitter. The program, available to MySpace's users worldwide, will be rolling out to a full version in the coming weeks. 'Historically, social destinations on the Internet have operated as independent, autonomous islands,' DeWolfe said. 'Today, MySpa
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Q&A Session With Chris Brogan: Wrap Up
Flickr Photo: alexander drachmannWe started the week off here at NTEN with a Q&A session with Chris Brogan, who answered questions from NTEN members about engaging people through social media. In case you missed it, you can see a transcript of the questions in the materials section (and if you're a member of NTEN, you can get the recording) here. Chris commented a few times on how impressed he was by the questions you all asked him -- demonstrating yet again that, in many ways, the nonpr
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ABC News: Cyclone Relief Efforts Get High-Tech Help
ABC News: Cyclone Relief Efforts Get High-Tech Help: "As cyclone recovery efforts begin in a rural third-world country where even owning a cell phone is illegal, relief organizations turn to high-tech helpers: satellites." Labels: NPDisasterRelief, NPtech
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onPhilanthropy: Articles: Helmets On, Social Citizens on the Rise
From onPhilanthropy onPhilanthropy: Articles: Helmets On, Social Citizens on the Rise: "As the largest living generation of Americans, Millennials are using their passion for causes and their digital savvy to change the world in very practical ways; one purchase, one house built or mile walked at a time. Millennials are hands-on “experience seekers.” They want to experience change, to touch and feel it, and they want a menu of options for acting now and seeing results in real time for real
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Nepal Ideas
I have always found that trying to set up technology projects in Nepal before I get there is both frustrating and futile. My Nepalese--and it can also be said, my North Indian--contacts like to discuss this sort of thing face to face. Which is why I'm on my Summer 2008 Worlds Touch trip to the Himalaya with only one project in my pocket, the health camp with the Darjeeling Rotary Club. We've had that one in our pocket since I came back from my Rotary scholarship in late 2006. That's a great op
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Myturf - volunteer website for Birmingham from Birmingham City University
Very good looking site at myturf designed as a means of coordinating volunteer effort in teh city. I’ll be interested to see how/if it works.
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Five Years Behind? Maybe Not So Much
Flickr Photo: OzymanI gave a little talk on social media today to folks who publish print media (both non- and for profit). My big takeaway is that, nonprofit or for profit, we're all facing the same dilemmas regarding social media: we're nervous about the same issues of openness, and we all have trouble explaining it to our bosses. Another big takeaway was that everyone has the same email marketing questions. How much should we send? Should we buy names? What kind of segmenting should we d
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Hacking nonprofit sites and minds
Don't watch the above video. Really. It's the infamous banned Pokemon scene that gave hundreds of people seizures when first broadcast in Japan. The problem: for some people, the blinking colors acted as a trigger for a neurological disruption known as photosensitive epilepsy. Why would I post this? Because the effect is in the news again, and this time it involves a nonprofit. Via Wired, there's news that the FBI has begun investigating the infamous (in tech circles, anyway) sabotage on th
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