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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To answer Deborah's question, I don't think Facebook is yet the default front end for nonprofits, but it has become an increasingly important fundraising channel give the impressive growth statistics (not just users but in the age 35 plus category). There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Nonetheless, he had to write an article. He suggests starting with the context here and then read his article.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

CityCamp was an "unconference," meaning that the agenda was defined by the participants, who pitched and voted on session ideas. PDFs are great for preserving the final format of a document, but they are nearly useless for any kind of robust analysis.

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