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Collaborative Paper: What to do in the nonprofit sector to offset the economic crash.

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It's part of the Foundation Center's aggregated page of articles, podcasts, data, and resources that Focus on the Financial Crisis. Excellent example of aggregation strategy and really clear and good information design. Marty Kearns has set up a collaborative paper and discussion on a wiki. Drill down to see the details.

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Blog Action Day 2009 Climate Change: Technology in the Climate Movement

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Today's Blog Action Day 2009 ! Social Network Collaboration : Focus the Nation *, 1Sky , and Energy Action Coalition have decided to bridge their social networks onto one platform called The Climate Network using the community software tool Zanby. No data is shared between organizations unless the user agrees to it first.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to?

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

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Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Shout-outs, Contests, Wikis

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Flickr: cogdogblog Judy Hallman always rocks the power of wikis for knowledge aggregation and collaboration. There's still time to cast your votes for the 2009 Nonprofit Video Awards , co-sponsored by See3 Communications , DoGooder.TV, and Flip Video Spotlight (who will be giving the winners custom Flip video cameras as "trophies.

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Interview: Marshall Kirkpatrick on the Real Time Web Report

Amy Sample Ward

We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009. Be that pushing real-time updates out to their websites and supporters, consuming updates on breaking news in their sector in real time, or collaborating remotely in real time.

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The Future of the Nonprofit Office: Working from Home v2.0

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The people in these organizations know how to communicate and collaborate, and much of this interaction is conducted face-to-face. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years. We Need to Have a Meeting!

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