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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. Reveal Change Many of the stories we'd like our site visitors to understand are centered on revealing the truth behind a situation. The truth can become obvious when you reveal the change in data in a visual way. And for good reason.

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Global Health in Seattle: The “Proximity Advantage”

Forum One

Emily Inlow-Hood of PATH shared her group’s work on building out a strategic Wikipedia presence, and the discussion went on to consider a wide range of presence management topics, from mobile (build applications? or just optimize for the browser?), to Facebook/Twitter (which one is the more intimate medium?)

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources.

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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. 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. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. 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. 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. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs. Provide Context.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I believe that the tools are transient, the buzzwords will change, but the value system embedded in these 4Cs is here to stay. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail.