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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Podcasting.

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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

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together. We can't forget about our basic humaness when interacting with other people.