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By bluerasberry on 2015-09-15
I work for Consumer Reports. Of course I cannot speak for the organization, but I am at Consumer Reports because I care about nonprofit media, and I wish to share some of my thoughts about the state of nonprofit publishing including Consumer Reports’ position among its peers in nonprofit media. This week Rubert Murdoch purchased […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Consumer Reports, medi, public service
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-08
Wikimania is the annual international Wikimedia conference. This is an annual international conference for Wikimedia contributors. About 1000 people convene for the three-day main conference, in which 5 conference tracks are ongoing for eight hours. Conference tracks cover such topics as presenting individuals’ projects, reviewing community organizing plans, promoting access to information sources, developing tutorial […]
Posted in Mexico City, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2015-08-02
Every organization which recruits volunteers values their volunteers. Sometimes they even calculate the financial value of their volunteers. This works by recording the cost of a set of volunteer recruitment campaigns, noting how many volunteers become engaged because of those campaigns, then dividing the total cost by the number of volunteers recruited. I am sure […]
Posted in Dhaka, India, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged crowdsourcing, grants
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-22
On June 20 I went to a conference in New York called The Seed. It is organized by a consortium of activists and nonprofit organizations who promote the vegan lifestyle, and this annual conference is a special event to complement a monthly vegan market and meetup which they group also hosts. At their events they […]
Posted in animal, health, New York City, non-profit | Tagged conference, food, PETA
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-12
I talked with Alex Stinson (user:Sadads on Wikipedia) today about libraries and archives. The context was that Consumer Reports has a light relationship with Kansas State University because their library system holds some archives relating to the Consumer Movement, including Colston Warne‘s papers. I am not going to give context to our conversation, but I […]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on 2015-05-29
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization which acts as steward of the Wikimedia projects. It is governed by its board of 10. One of the seats is a lifetime appointment for a key member, 4 are reserved for experts and chosen in a traditional way, and the remaining 5 seats are for representatives of […]
Posted in election, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimedia Foundation board elections
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-01
On Sunday and Monday 29-30 March there was a meeting of Wikipedians and representatives of members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That organization is best known as the consortium supporting public broadcast media in the United States, including PBS, NPR, and all of the affiliates they have in every city in the United States. […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, legal, New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged civil rights, copyright
By bluerasberry on 2015-03-16
On Saturday 14 March I and some others met in DC to plan WikiConference 2015. I was an organizer for the event last year. It was covered a bit in external media. We organizers had met perhaps 10 times in person and done more organizing online to run a three-day conference in Manhattan for 250 […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, safety
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is one of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I present the idea […]
Posted in computer, non-profit, rights | Tagged MuckRock, request