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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. See an overview of the findings below."

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Many digital activism initiatives like Social Documentary and Witness.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Add the bookmarklet so you can easily save bookmarks into delicious. t have to know how to create the code.).

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Can it generate revenue? I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. Can it attract more visitors?

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Guest Post by Angus Parker: Review and Book Giveaway - The New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tools touched on include: blogs, microblogging, social networks, social bookmarking, social news, Q&A websites, photography, video, and podcasting. Mobilizing Generation 2.0 At the end, there is a nice 'Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook' that spells out the dos and dont's of using some of the more popular social media sites.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A must-bookmark list of special days that acknowledge social good events and cause campaigns. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. Clipix makes bookmarking a.k.a. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. Bravo :: getbravo.com.

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