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Getting Rich off the Gift Economy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OpenBusiness has a post called " Getting Rich Off Those Who Work for Free " which is summarizing a recent article about this in Time Magazine. That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. MySpace , etc.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Brett Meyer, NTEN. The digital divide doesn't exist. We can just bridge the gap, right?

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What advice would you offer Working Films about measuring the impact of their social media strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MySpace - to stay connected / reach out to potential supporters. Wikipedia - editing articles of films, events, and organizations that we are closely linked to in order to mention our affiliation with them. Building an online presence on Social Networking / Web2.0

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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More Home Analogies: the Potluck Model for Participation

Museum 2.0

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. application like MySpace or Wikipedia. What is the collective item to which all are contributing on MySpace? On Wikipedia? This is the MySpace model.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. " Findhabeas.