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"Book Discovery" and Policy Impact

Forum One

And I found especially interesting his mentioning of "what bibliophiles call book discovery.". He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. This would massively improve what bibliophiles call book discovery.

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The more things change …

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can be fun!

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Everything

Judi Sohn

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! While I was with WWD, I worked with Anne Zelenka on her book, Connect! Leave a comment » once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world.

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Everything

Judi Sohn

While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! While I was with WWD, I worked with Anne Zelenka on her book, Connect! Leave a comment » once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world.

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Guest Post: 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Think of the comment area of your blog like a cocktail party.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes). It got 189 diggs. Use feedback in action to adjust as you go. So, this is rough.