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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

NTEN

By hard coded, I mean in the legal policies you've adopted, the features you've released and prioritized, your data taxonomies, your site map and information hierarchy. I'm blaming it on 4 years of awesome NetSquared conversations. Where is your community online? Platform values are most obvious in the TOS (see Facebook's history.)

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note that the social media early adopters are now having a conversation much faster over at FriendFeeds (see this ). In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. Update: There's been a lot of discussion lately.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. Here's a growing list.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Our friends at NetSquared have a great podcast interview with Steve Williams of Business Objects that provides more good examples. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works. You need leadership skills to drive adoption and participation across the organization.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

I write for the NetSquared blog each day (it takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour depending on the topic), but it is also designed to be a community blog, so any registered user can post on it about how nonprofits are using the social web for social change. Depending on your organization's work and audience, you may not have to.

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Mark Liu from NetSquared: Part 2

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

(. in which I continue to interview my former dorm-mate, Mark Liu, now the project manager for TechSoup's NetSquared initiative) [Me] What can you tell us about the April NetSquared conference? First, we hope to build a community of active participants in the NetSquared website over the coming months.