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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 17th).

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? Doing Good. Have you made a video like this?

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NTEN Webinar: Social Media Building Blocks

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. We’ll cover social bookmarking, tagging, RSS and more, plus the tools you can start using for free to do it all. I will be posting my slides on SlideShare and this blog after the event to continue the conversation started during the webinar.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world.

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Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. Right now, the asymetric sharing can result in fragmented conversations and lack of social context, although not everyone thinks that is necessarily a bad thing.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Finally, you'll need to start to engage with your network and have a conversation. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.