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Great reads from January 6th through January 8th

Amy Sample Ward

2008 Online Giving Trends - Connections - Want to compare your 2008 numbers/results to other organizations? On this site, you can write, edit & remix each other's words - along with those of the past years' presidents - to create an inaugural that reflects your collective viewpoint.

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Open Social != Open Data

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. { But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. { But it’s the remixing of data from many networks that provides the real win for users and nonprofits. {

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Open Source Cinema

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Brett's Remix of Lessig's Words. Here's his description: Open Source Cinema is the web platform for the creation of a feature documentary film about Copyright titled Basement Tapes. The film is going to be released in 2008 - online, on TV, and in theatres as well. Brett Gaylor is a amazing! OpenSourceCinema.org to help make it.

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PBS ShowCase Presentation: Social Media Adoption Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a remix of the " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism " which was the title of a talk given by Ethan Zuckerman at O'Reilly's E-Tech Conference in March, 2008 (notes from Ryan Singel. In this talk, Ethan points out that the Web was invented so physicists could share research papers, but Web2.0 of Wired Blog).

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Learn from innovators how to leverage the web for good! Identity trends on the Social Web.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). You can also remix other projects. It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. but still, a programming environment.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

Visitors get upset when they are told to put their cameras away, and it is becoming increasingly hard for guards (and, down the road, marketing staff) to control the taking of photographs and their spread on the Web. When people share their photos of your museum, they promote and spread your content to new audiences in authentic ways.

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