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Thoughts on The Social Network (and Why We Need to Pay Attention)

NTEN

Mark Zuckerberg Never Dresses Appropriately for the Weather might be a more accurate title for The Social Network. The Social Network as a title lets us assume the movie is about Facebook, which it isn’t. Maybe the makers of The Social Network just don’t get Facebook. . Facebook has matured.

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Great reads from around the web on May 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." However, many women in technology and social media still face a digital ceiling." " This report is from NTEN, Common Knowledge, and The Port.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Social Media for Nonprofits SF Conference Recap

Tech Soup

On Friday November 4 , 300 nonprofit and social good professionals gathered at the Marines’ Memorial Hotel and Club in San Francisco for Social Media for Nonprofits – a national conference series on the use of social media for social good.

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An interesting call from danah boyd

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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). know danah boyd.

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Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

NTEN

Google+ , the latest iteration on social networking from Google, is here. Now, your sharing and connecting settings apply to much more of the web than just your social networking profile. When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear. You could then share messages, notes, talk about class, etc.

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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

I wondered if we have gotten so caught up in digital social networking that we've forgotten how to do the original social networking – talking with one another! I've even skipped out on some trends (ahem, including one rather large social networking site). Next time, say it with feeling. And that's okay.

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