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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. 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. (You Direct Content.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. And for good reason.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Reveal Change. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Provide Context.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. Reveal Change. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. Data is the new black. And for good reason. Provide Context.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

Because of the dynamic and changing nature of the internet this conference serves as a good barometer of new and innovative approaches in the museum world. Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Thanks Marshall for all the great advice, I'm going to make some changes after I post this interview. Tagging itself is going to need to change so that people feel more comfortable using multi-word tags. Really though, your blog is pretty fantastic and is something I feel like I need to spend lots more time going through.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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