Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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The social network commitment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. I’m not bothering with MySpace, Orkut, etc. of people that I want to all in one place.

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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page?

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

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At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products.

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More on Facebook

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I never did start a MySpace page, and I don’t imagine I ever will. I’ve got my flickr photostream up there, my del.icio.us One of my questions is whether or not they dedicate any time to LinkedIn, or other networking sites anymore, or has Facebook become the one they spend most time on.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I blog, I use Flickr, I search blogs using Technorati, I use del.icio.us But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 Hallmarks of Web 2.0 sites include a democratic approach to content, organization by tagging, and new, much more flexible and intuitive interfaces. I think Web 2.0,

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