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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I keep 2 blogs of my own, and contribute actively to one community blog (at nosi.net ) and could, potentially, contribute to quite a number of others. These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ).

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

Tech Soup

Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. Connect2Compete as Aggregator of Local Digital Inclusion Projects. Philly has long been an active digital inclusion center of activity in the country.

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What's the String that Ties One Experience at Your Institution with the Next?

Museum 2.0

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I don't care how many platforms you're active in--if they are not connected to each other, people will not aggregate the experiences. Reader, I was wrong. They are missing a string.

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NpTech Summary: Social Networking Strategies and Nonprofits: Getting Beyond Shiny Object Syndrome and Getting More Precise Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. Sort of a 2008 version of build it and they will come syndrome we saw in the 1990's. I raised a question about that last point in the FriendFeed NpTech Room. I may be way off.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya. Users don't just see aggregate statistics on a map, they get personalized recommendations with map features customized to the amenities they have chosen. Collecting and Disseminating Information - Ushahidi. Maps Of The People, By The People, For The People - Map Kibera.

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