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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. He applied the metaphor to Twitter.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

You can access a MySQL database via many many different drivers that people have written for just about any programming language. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. literally speak a different language from the rest of us. They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 Unclear application.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Write the release in a straightforward manner, including relevant information with no sentimental language. Online sources like Wikipedia can help you find additional publications if you have a broad area. Use Google alerts and Twitter to follow your local publications and issues related to your organization’s mission.

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SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. In the last six years, we’ve produced more than 75,000 posts that link to blogs and other citizen content for readers in over 20 languages.