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Great reads from January 6th through January 8th

Amy Sample Ward

2008 Online Giving Trends - Connections - Want to compare your 2008 numbers/results to other organizations? " The Collective Power of Individuals - BusinessWeek - Thinking Twitter? ." " The Collective Power of Individuals - BusinessWeek - Thinking Twitter? "That’s

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Tools for individuals are great, but what we’ve seen in 2008 is that the tools that individuals like the most and use the most are the ones that create the most dynamic communities. Tools like Twitter, FriendFeed and social networking. What was your favorite innovation from 2008? Community Movement.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Cause Fatigue #4Change Recap « 4change – Did you miss the recent #4change twitter chat? Check it out!

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Free TechSoup Webinar: Basics for Beginners

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So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. billion in IT expenses as of September 2008. This Wednesday, April 15th, you can participate in a free online event and webinar from TechSoup, Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools.

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Women in Technology: 2 Ways you CAN get Involved!

Amy Sample Ward

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here. Who was Ada?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

Probably middle of 2008. Like people generally do, we thought about the impact that Twitter and Facebook were making on the web. I’m at Marshallk.com , we’re at ReadWriteWeb.com , on Twitter I’m @marshallk and the whole ReadWriteWeb team is at [link]. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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