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Crowdsourcing vs Community-sourcing: What’s the difference and the opportunity?

Amy Sample Ward

Aggregate and promote – be sure you are pulling together all of the contributions from the community and promoting people in real-time. Compelling story – research continues to show that one of the most important triggers to donations and actions are compelling stories. NetSquared Challenges (slide 27) – [link].

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Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: User Generated Content

Amy Sample Ward

www.socialchangenews.com is the internets’ hub for news on social change that combines original user-created content (UCC) with the latest aggregated news on organizations, and individuals working to transform society. Brigham at SocialChangeNews answers this question in one word: indubitably!

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief. By the morning of the 14th, donations had already hit $3 Million. . Updated numbers from last week show mobile donations at over $31 Million!

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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. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. FriendFeed has been getting a lot of buzz lately. Read this ). Want to go even deeper?

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. " SocialVibe's proof of concept has donated more than $100K to charities so far.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. over at her Netsquared blog about adoption of blogs and wikis in an organizational context and how these tools further organizational mission. What do you think?