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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Described the features and content. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. The volunteers were high school students.

Romania 50
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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

They even created a Facebook application. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

Museum 27
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Twitteracy (Twitter Literacy)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure, Twitter is banal and trivial, full of self-promotion and outright spam. And, with web-based applications like Co-Tweet or HootSuite you can share the tweeting across teams, pre-schedule your tweets and other time-saving tricks. So is the Internet. All without the restraints of writing in complete sentences.