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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Like ‘how many times can I invite my Facebook friends to a fundraising event before it’s considered spam?’ And now the social networking giant is poised to delve even deeper into users’ messaging activity with a new mobile app with SMS-like functionality." ’ Well, now’s your chance!

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Philanthropist 2.0: Crowdsourced Advised Funds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He isn't relying on the traditional approach of asking an expert, but wants to crowdsource suggestions through social networks. Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. This is my first experiment in solving this problem. That was rather encouraging.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter? Real-Time Publishing. These services are fun and useful.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Niche content. Personality is important.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

How is a CIO or IT manager with limited experience in a low-budget nonprofit to keep up without breaking the bank? Social networking sites are the next and prime targets for cyber do-no-gooders. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential. Careful about buying cheap software from unknown sources.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Blog Buzz, NGOS at Demo 07, and Moulin

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Unthinkingly experiments with visualizing NpTech Tag data with Many Eyes. A reminder from Democracy in Action about accidental email spamming. Wikis, Widgets and Social Networking Do you think there are too many freaking widgets ? It's called Moulin.

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