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Web 2.0 Experiments, snafus and stumbles

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Turns out, unlike Facebook, or Myspace and such, the “Spock Bot&# makes pages for people without their knowing. Creepy part: do I really want to know what’s on my ex-girlfriend’s MySpace page? 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 tool to jump in. What a concept.

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Planned Parenthood Movement Building: Leadership, Engagement, Stories, and Platform for Self-Organizing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Activists are sharing their personal stories in their own words, images, and videos across social networks with little prodding from the organization. " We’ve stopped cramming calls to action down people’s throats because we understand that’s not the culture of MySpace or Facebook or the way social media can be successful.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. It’s only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale – on a web scale – that the business becomes lucrative. at 9:46 am Web 2.0 at 9:53 am lol!

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It came back earlier this week in a new format and aggregation process. Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Photo by SpacePotato. The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. Here and here ).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. " Covers the pros and cons of running your own branded social network or going with Facebook or Myspace. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Read this ).

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NpTech: Summer Vacations, Who Let the NpTech Dogs Out, and IPhone Fundraising!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Tools Here's yet another post declaring the death of email due to Facebook and Myspace. Why nothing about social aggregators ? Here's one from LOLNPTECH.org and Little Dishes 2 from the Non-Profit Tech Blog.

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