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Great reads from around the web on May 9th

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). It’s a no- to low-cost database that is a rich source of information about potential major donors, board members, employees, and strategic allies."

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Great reads from around the web on April 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Change the Web Challenge: Finalists Announced - I'm really excited about the 24 Finalists in the Change the Web Challenge - this Challenge called for new applications that use Social Actions' API which aggregates and surfaces all kinds of actionable opportunities from around the web. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Check them out!

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Great reads from around the web on June 13th

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). This is well and good for the information-consuming public; however, these results can spawn curiosities that are fun to dig into.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

an easy way to approach this is by updating information in the group/fan page every time you send out an enewsletter or action alert). Delicious / Bookmarks. If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them. Communities.

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. Hashtags.org then aggregates all the tweets using a given tag and publishes an RSS feed.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. And for expert level knowledge, read these blog posts about FriendFeed that Louis Gray has bookmarked.). In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded.

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Christian Kreutz's Reflections on Web2.0forDev

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even though I find email is often an information overload application, Damir gave an interesting example: at the WHO, a 20.000 people network manages over easy mailing lists and easy features, proving traditional ways can be successful, especially in developing countries. He basically argued that web2.0