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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.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

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). Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. What is this new network-centric world? Repair Interview: Joe Solomon of 350.org

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Google+ – Yi-Tan Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I want to be able to bookmark or pick things out from the stream that I want to go back to so the items don’t get lost. Also, there’s search yet. According to Wikipedia,Gmail has 193mm users, so even if Google plus integration starts, they’re still behind Facebooks 600m+.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

In a recent post I claimed that tools like social bookmarking and tagging might be making waves among the technoscenti, but they are not high on the nuts-and-bolts priority list of the typical non-profit. My point was simply that most of the non-profits I work with have far more crucial technology issues to resolve at this moment.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Be a Net2Builder!

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. I really believe that many of these technologies can help nonprofits get the word out and build community around their work so if any of the above interests you, and you'd like to get involved, let me know.