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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S. patent office to involve the public in the approval or rejection of patent applications.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All the research is done, you'll find links to my bookmarks on delicious). #2 We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits. We will also design a "Flickr Walk" to take place sometime during the conference.

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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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Great reads from around the web on August 16th

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). It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. 2) Bookmarks can???t Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text.