Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. Keep in mind this is a community wiki space. Heavy Metal Umlaut ??? Fast forward three years later.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2005

I got dissapproving comments by half a dozen readers - typical was a comment from Mike at Mind Valley who says: I am surprised that you doubt the business value of tagging and social bookmarking. The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. social bookmarking. Look it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Searching between the cracks There are so many different places where nptech resources are being aggregated and thanks to Yahoo pipes many variations on the meta feeds that occassionally you discover little pockets of resources that either get lost in the flow or don't make it into the main fire hoses for one reason or another.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. The value of that content is strongly impacted by the number of active users (social benefit), and there is some collective action around the development of wikipedia articles. On blogs and aggregators that draw heavily from 3 and 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

Creating a place where content around a certain theme is aggregated, in part by machine selection in part socially, and in part by a human. Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned. That's very exciting, I think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Whatever, MySpace has over 80% of the total market of social networking site users according a recent report by hitwise, but keep in mind it represents 6.5% of Internet visits.

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