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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

Just like the other link tagged recently with the "day in the life" of Danielle Brigida, I love "case studies" that share how individuals "really" use the platforms and tools and strategies - moving from the theoretical or abstract down to the practical application.

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From Social Media StarFish To Conversation Prism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

Nptech 50
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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. patent office to involve the public in the approval or rejection of patent applications. Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S.

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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

BITS reported on October 12th that LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye is " rushing to copy the electronic underpinnings of Facebook's elegant application programming interface, or A.P.I., Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". The new developer platform.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An article in the Washington Post notes that "fewer than 1% of those who have joined a cause have actually donated money through [the Facebook Causes] application." Later in this series I'll go into some reasons why the thinking and practice around these kinds of applications are flawed. Focus on friendraising first.