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C + C + C = C? The Secret to Viral Marketing

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That's the number of "yes" votes we got for our proposed NTC session in just a couple short weeks—apparently the most ever. [Ed So what gives, and how can you crush our record when you propose a workshop next year? The waterfall age of the Encyclopedia Brittanica has given way to Wikipedia, and the bottom-up world is here to stay.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

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The field became fixated on achieving two holy-grails, requisite in every proposal, but nearly always unattainable: sustainability and scalability. . Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. While clever, our solutions could simply not overcome the maddening math nor achieve the requisite access levels to scale.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. So how do we propose to pay for it? Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! era websites.