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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

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). Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate.

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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.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. social bookmarking (now called Delicious ) by using their APIs on the site. (An Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. You can monitor social networks and YouTube for mentions of your organization and issue. How to Listen on YouTube by KD Paine 5. Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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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. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" Unclear application.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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