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MARCH 7, 2010

PolicyTool for Social Media. Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Amazon EC2 API Tools. For instance, the reason there are so many links about Amazon is that we are now beginning a project that uses amazon in earnest, with some others possibly on the way. AboutUseCaseMaps < UCM < Foswiki. Data Robotics, Inc.

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JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. You don’t need to hear from me about the newest web tools – you have ReadWriteWeb and Mashable for that, among others.

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits.

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JULY 30, 2008

Beth Kanter asks whether or not we can add some more steps to Chris Brogan’s fabulous 50 steps to create a social media presence. and social network guru for the nptech community. BTW, I thought of you today after reading Nancy’s comments about the online community module for NTEN We Are Media.

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JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. I’ll be doing an entry soon, sort of “how social networks could use open standards 101.&# These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others.

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JANUARY 6, 2008

Miro , the free and open source media player, has released a Firefox plugin , which automatically inserts their affiliate code when you buy something from Amazon. It’s really simple to use, and one doesn’t have to have links on your website, etc. Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. { Hat tip to Jon Stahl for the heads up. {

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JUNE 11, 2008

Check out the book club , reading Media Rules! Ruby Sinreich is a new phenomenon ! You go girl! NTEN keeps surprising me with cool stuff for nonprofit tech peeps. And I’m on the board! Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience , by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. On one hand, I’m excited to announce that my article “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence&# has been published in Convergence 14(1) (special issue edited by Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze). That’s super depressing.

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AUGUST 24, 2007

Probably it just means that when the “Social Media Director&# or the “Goddess of Communication&# arrived in their office in the morning, they ran their standard set of google blog and technorati searches, and voila, there I was. I guess that’s a good thing. Maybe it means I have “arrived&#.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. 2 trackbacks } Web 2.0 - Social Media - Internet News - Blogging » Facebook Ad Platform 11.13.07 Ads can be targeted by profile data. at 10:46 am Michelle, Thanks for this roundup!

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MAY 21, 2007

Because the recovery media for this laptop was on the hard drive, and I also wanted to create a separate /home partition, I did a manual partition, deleting both partitions on the hard drive, and creating three partitions: /, /home, and swap. (I Once Ubuntu finished booting, I clicked the wonderful “install&# icon at the top.

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MARCH 19, 2007

Her perspective is that the scarcity mentality of nonprofits (the idea that there is only one pie, and we only get our small slice) helps keep nonprofits from taking full advantage of social media (i.e. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. I understand you just got a nice new cut! If it makes you feel any better – I feel your pain too. And it’s hard. I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. That’s also REALLY hard.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In the next chapter , he will talk about the economics of social production, and the motivations behind peer content creation. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 It’s really worth a read. 2 Michelle Murrain 11.16.06

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AUGUST 17, 2007

So, once I decided that, I realized I needed to find the right tools. ReadyTalk – this had been the tool I thought I’d use. at 12:32 pm Hi Michelle, Our Social Media Director came across your blog this morning, and passed the link along to me. I thought it would be a good endeavor to start with. It’s $.24

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. But, in the scheme of things, the latter topic is far more important in the long run to the more than 1 million nonprofits out there than how to use a web tool.

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JUNE 24, 2008

The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. There are just too many things we need – too many cool new peripherals, we want to manipulate too many kinds of data and media, etc. Linux isn’t popular because #1 – there is no GNU/Linux advertising in mainstream media. #2 10 Isaac 11.20.08

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

And the major engine that makes these three types of ephemeral media really work, is RSS, which is the subject of the next post. It could be argued that iTunes made podcasting mainstream. But without a doubt, YouTube made vlogging, and mass video creation mainstream. So, now the question – should a nonprofit organization have a blog?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

I got on Beth Kanter ’s case a while back , when she was posting about "Tagging for social change. " One of the things I said to Beth was: I have to admit to some hesitance even thinking about a phrase like "Tagging to make social change." Are there actually really any fewer homeless people?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

There is a generational battle going on, not only in the political arena but throughout the conflicting spaces of old and new media. 2 Richard Bell 12.08.08 at 10:38 pm I ran John Kerry’s blogsite in the 2004 election campaign.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

It makes nonmarket strategies – from individual hobbyists to formal, well-funded nonprofits – vastly more effective than they could be in the mass-media environment." He lays out some interesting concepts, things I’d been aware of, but not really studied enough to articulate.

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