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Power Law of Participation: How does it differ for collective charitable giving?

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Flickr Photo from Ross Mayfield Still reflecting on the question " Are Fundraising Groundwells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations?" Found this oldish post in my bookmark collection called Power Law of Participation for social software by Ross Mayfield.

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Great reads from around the web on October 14th

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). has been seized by the Libyan government for failure to comply with Islamic law. However, just today a.ly shortener called vb.ly And now this has all.ly

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7 Voting Resources You Should Know Before Heading to the Polls

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FiveThirtyEight: If you are a political junkie and love to follow the latest poll numbers, then FiveThirtyEight should be bookmarked as one of your most favorite websites. My Vote, My Right Voter Protection Site: Learn about voter ID laws and steps to take to protect your right to vote tomorrow.

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Great reads from around the web on January 26th

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.

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A Roundup of New Year's Predictions, Resolutions, and Best Of 2008

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nonprofit law blog offers its gloomy predictions for 2009, as does The Philanthropic Family Blog 3. You can pick out the best content on your blog, other people's blogs, or ask your readers. Michelle Murrain has a top ten list from her blog. Alex Steed offers his connective predictions for 2009 at the NetSquared blog.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks. Explore and discover other bookmarks using this guide.

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Giving the Gift of Technology

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Last summer, when we moved off the grid, my mother-in-law began giving us pioneer-era technological gifts I’d never encountered before, including a food mill. I first started appreciating this conceptual framing of technology as tool/gift a few weeks ago, when I made applesauce for the first time.

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