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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

The site said the original message was in Greek and translated to “From the 16th to the 20th of November, we shall change our profile pictures to our favourite cartoon characters. National Child Abuse Prevention Month isn’t until April. Do we need slacktivism to justify fun behavior online?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

According to the American Red Cross , A recent Red Cross survey asked 1,058 adults about their use of social media sites in emergency situations. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Text messaging. What People Were Saying.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Although it has its own blog, and most of the members are on Twitter and Facebook, all of the action takes place on Friendfeed. What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? Some are huge.

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Projects #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s Los Alamos National Lab. Again - the GEO site is here: [link]. Global Energy Observatory ?

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Shovel-Ready Online Civic Project #5: "Global Energy Observatory" Interactive Databases and Maps

Forum One

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? s Los Alamos National Lab. Again - the GEO site is here: [link]. Global Energy Observatory ?

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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

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia.