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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Volunteers and Technology</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/22.aspx</link><description>Learn about working with technology volunteers and how the Internet connects volunteers with the organizations that need them.&lt;br /&gt;Hosted by &lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/members/jcravens42/default.aspx"&gt;Jayne Cravens&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.coyotecommunications.com"&gt;Coyote Communications&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/members/ebarnhart/default.aspx"&gt;Erin Barnhart&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.idealist.org"&gt;Idealist&lt;/a&gt;.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP1 (Debug Build: 30619.63)</generator><item><title>Wikipedia nonprofit entries need online volunteer editors</title><link>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/97819.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:42:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">caa7681b-025a-49ce-809f-7435bfe4d232:97819</guid><dc:creator>jcravens42</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/thread/97819.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=97819</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Often, when you do an online search on a topic, the first page that comes up in a search tool such as &lt;a href="http://www.google.com"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; is &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (at least for search phrases in English and German). Also, many people go straight to &lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; to get a briefing about a particular topic before they look for more detailed information. &lt;br /&gt;
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That&amp;#39;s why, IMO, it&amp;#39;s so important that pages on &lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; relating to nonprofit organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), volunteering/volunteerism, etc. are robust, with accurate information from a variety of knowledgeable people. &lt;br /&gt;
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If you have expertise relating to any of the following topics, please consider devoting some virtual volunteering/online volunteering time and help edit these &lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; pages. Additional information with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Adding_the_citation"&gt;inline citations&lt;/a&gt; is very much needed for these pages relating to nonprofits:&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit"&gt;Nonprofit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteering"&gt;Volunteering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_volunteering"&gt;Virtual Volunteering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_sector"&gt;Voluntary sector&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots"&gt;Grassroots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_technology"&gt;Nonprofit Technology&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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