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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

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I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient.

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

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" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. Some more examples and resources from the LASA list: Sean Kenny points to an example of publishing content with RSS feeds. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. All by next week!

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

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The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them. Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). When I explore a toolbox, I have two impulses. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

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Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Openness - ????A news or web feeds ???? or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Consuming Reading Feeds.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. TechSoup has RSS feeds too! Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? CEO Kintera steps down.

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I look for patterns

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I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. My reader has lots of blogs feeds, comment feeds, tag feeds, search feeds, and more. Opening the Kimono. Flickr photo from Markopolos.

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