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Great reads from around the web on February 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). What we rarely talk about is how we talk about digital activism: Is our focus in the right place? " The Age of Mobile Email Has Arrived.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. If you are copying it to the letter, ask permission.

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Interview Series from Water Words That Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. This week, I???ll ll interview five of them ???

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. When delicious tells you the number of people who bookmarked, I hate the way it looks. If just one other person bookmark, it shows a link. One of the problems with tagging is the ambiguity of language that we use for tags.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This co-operation between museums and visitors bridges the gap between the professional language of the curator and the popular language of the museum visitor, and helps individuals see their personal meanings and perspectives in public collections. perspectives rather than institutional ones. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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Two Tagging Projects that Make Sense

Museum 2.0

Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. They aren't letting visitors bookmark objects; they are asking for descriptors to help people find them. Are there chicks? Are there eggs? is scarily true.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. literally speak a different language from the rest of us. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0

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