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Bits: New Domain Name for Museums; Free Service for Small Social-Services Groups

November 30, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

By NICOLE WALLACE

  • Among the seven new top-level Internet domain names recommended by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, was dot-museum. (Top-level domain names are the last part of an Internet address, such as dot-com or dot-org, that indicate what type of organization runs the site.) The proposal for the new domain name was submitted by the Museum Domain Management Association, a group created by the International Council of Museums, or ICOM, in Paris, and the J. Paul Getty Trust, in Los Angeles.
  • HandsNet is offering free subscriptions to its WebClipper service to social-services organizations with annual budgets of less than $200,000. The WebClipper service, which normally costs $99 per year, searches more than 500 Web sites that provide information for social-services groups and sends members a daily e-mail message with new information in their fields of interest. The scholarships are being paid for by the proceeds of the organization’s online auction of mousepads signed by celebrities. To get there: Go to http://www.handsnet.org.


About the Author

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.