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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

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. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Big Data, Philanthropy, and Health at SOCAP13

Tech Soup

The tools aggregate data from a few different sources: The Center for Responsive Politics , GovTrack.us , Follow The Money , and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. This isn't your average tech company, however. MapLight is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that uses data to show money's influence on politics.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Automated systems can aggregate content coming from particular blogs, people, companies, keywords, or some combination of these. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. That can make it difficult to navigate.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Be a Net2Builder!

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. Writing up a nonprofit profile only takes 15-20 minutes. Finally, anyone who is registered on NetSquared can blog on the NetSquared blog about Net2 related things.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. Then others will find it when they search delicious (or other sites, like Technorati , that aggregate delicious bookmarks). Let's begin at the beginning by making sure you've heard of one of most interesting phenomena of web2.0: social bookmarking.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some recent nonprofit tech posts addressing this topic here , here , here , and here. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Can such networks acquire the critical mass to provide meaningful and new connections? What are the engagement strategies - how to move from monologue to dialogue? What do you think? The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0