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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

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You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. "Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns.

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

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The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions. The Second C: Collaboration. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

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Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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

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It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. He also shares some process maps for donor management. (If There are two sets of social roles here.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

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Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 and asking for ideas. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool.

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Convio Open: How APIs May Change the Way You Work - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Another popular implementation of APIs is the Plaxo address book synchronization service, which allows you to aggregate your various address books into one database, using Plaxos API.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

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Also, keep in mind that Google offers its product for free because it makes money by watching you; by using Analytics, you're agreeing to let Google store your information and use it for aggregate reports. Other features I use frequently are: Languages, Geo Location, Geo Map Overlay, and Browser.