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Twitter Voter Report Wiki

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It’s called Twitter Voter Report and it brings together a team of techies, Twitter users and a Wiki to aggregate information on voting day. From their website: On November 4th 2008, millions of Americans will go to over 200,000 distinct voting locations and using different systems and machinery to vote.

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Things We Like (October 2008)

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If you watch Colbert , you've probably already been to FiveThirtyEight , an in-depth poll aggregation site. The We Are Media Wiki. Good thing the Twitter Vote Report didn't: tweet your voting experience to help others avoid problems. Pumpkin cookies ! Play2Cures , from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Yes, we helped make it.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 ). I’m aggregated on live.linuxchix.org – a planet for those who are involved in Linuxchix. It’s a great idea, I think.

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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. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. http ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 7_July_2005_London_bombings. http ://www.noula.ht/index.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve been playing with the conversational panel or conversational keynote models for short sessions (60, 75 or 90 minutes.)

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. score out of 5.0).

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