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New on SSIR: Are we addicted to Slacktivism?

Amy Sample Ward

National Child Abuse Prevention Month isn’t until April. And I got to learn why I love him so much – iturns out, according to wikipedia, he’s a “classic allegory of greed and corruption tarnishing all that’s good and innocent in the world&# – so I studied up on shmoo which made it all worthwhile [link] &#.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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What’s Missing from Your Ecosystem?

NetWits

Wikipedia gives you a fairly verbose definition , the dictionary gives a similar, but less wordy definition that I think is simpler to grasp. “An Think National Wildlife Federation. Think National Wildlife Federation. When you think about it, the idea of an ecosystem can be applied to many things in life. What’s an Ecosystem?

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Text messaging.

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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. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s

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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. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s

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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.