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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Here were some the baffling hot new things that charity techies and geeks for good were buzzing about: Blogging and the blogosphere. Citizen journalism.

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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. It’s really worth a read. at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. Use Your RSS Reader Like A Rock Star. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Use Technorati , a blog search engine. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Here's how to search on Technorati. Found from this Technorati Search ).

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Technorati Tags: databases , opensource { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Mike S. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6. at 6:42 am Hi Michelle,? You might want to take another look at Ingres.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I have long been a dedicated web researcher, so when I started hearing about blogs and about RSS, I investigated.

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