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Speaking of open social networks …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. If so, where on the list?

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » State Department Gets Into the Web Video Game

See3

While many agencies in Washington expect their budgets to be cut, the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy is looking for an extra $36 million in 2009, according to new administration budget documents. values and counters terrorist ideologies,” in documents provided to Congress. What will they spend the money on?

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10 Best Web Content Practices - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Compile the style guide into one document and distribute it to all staff who will be updating the website. February 26, 2009 | Gayle Thorsen Allyson, Great overview of web content best practices. John February 26, 2009 | John Haydon I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. Thanks for sharing your 10 Best.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. Over 13,000 photographs were submitted by 102 photographers at the fifteen different institutions, documenting about 6,200 pieces of art. Wikipedia Loves Art, Take Two In June of 2009, Dutch Wikimedians tried again.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

By the end of 2009, Charity Navigator is doing two extraordinary things. Most of our class agreed that the CN effort would lead to better accounting and reporting by the nonprofits, which will hopefully create a more transparent and well-documented nonprofit sector. And that will be good.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Reviewing where we were at the beginning of 2009, it’s amazing to see the growth in impact that Benetech and our team have had in the world. Last summer I talked about our great summer interns and fellows and early this year, I sent a copy of our 20th Anniversary Report that talked about our entire history.