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Great reads from around the web on May 9th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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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. Second, is bookmarking. at 7:28 am Glad I read the comments.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Christian Kreutz's Reflections on Web2.0forDev

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Aggregators can help, and so do social bookmarking sites, which show evaluated ranked webistes. More important are however, people, who sort, comment and translate content and make sense and relevance in the growing sea of information. emphasized in his presentation how important filters in this regard are.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm enjoying how Robin Broitman aggregate links about social media. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Photo by Caveman92223. Take her ROI and Measurement list. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed. Enter Hashtags.

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