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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. It got 189 diggs.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. Some reflections about the newest web2.0 This was a topic for an entire book called " Crazy Busy." Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

The genesis of Click derived from James Surowiecki's book The Wisdom of Crowds. In the book, James asserts that "diversity and independence" are two of the most important factors that make crowds intelligent. The Web moves quickly and self-reflection has little value in a young field with a "what's hot this second?"

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Yes, this means you will get more random solicitations from 5th graders writing book reports on your content. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Be personal.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

Museum 2.0

This is the last week of the Groundswell book discussion, in which we've been looking at five strategies (listening, talking, energizing, helping, and embracing) for business use of social technologies, as defined by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Tags: evaluation Book Discussion: Groundswell participatory museum usercontent.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. and my emphatic response is YES. Each Web 2.0