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Content Curation: Are You A Fire Hose or A Focusing Lens?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Salendron. Robin frames it like this: Are we creating and leveraging these tools to regurgitate and spit out more noise, or are we working to build tools and to help others understand the value of distilling and making sense of the information wave surrounding us? Only one of these strategies builds an asset of value.

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April NetSquared Events in Your Community

Tech Soup

We organize these free tech-for-good training and networking gatherings because we believe that it’s critical to build strong, self-sufficient communities of nonprofit tech practitioners. Vancouver, Canada: The Canadian Anti-Spam Act: What you need to know before July 1. Photo Credit: NetSquared/Joyce, creative commons on Flickr.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

By providing your stakeholders with a dedicated place to share knowledge with one another, community building happens naturally. Nptech resources can be found on delicious , flickr , slideshare , and Twitter. If you can build an area of your website where people come to learn, teach, and maybe have some fun, they will likely return.

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How do you consider the intangible benefits of social media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Maurice. I went straight to the section on Flickr Sobell House is an Oxford based hospice. It uses Flickr to host all of its photos. ???It???s Flickr builds a community of photo users,??? At any rate, it is a good example of how NOT to spam the Flickr community.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

We started slowly with the MySpace page , and we started in earnest with Flickr. We did this graffiti interactive via Flickr. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them. Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page?

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At least the content-focused social networks, like del.icio.us, or flickr, or my personal favorite, our own Social Source Commons , there is some there there. A new social networking site, called “Quetchup&# spammed (without permission) the contacts of people who signed up for the site. And, yet another login and password.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More Flickr Photos here. The presentation covered the background, planning, organizational culture, tool selection, blogging, building an audience, and results. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate. It is a challenging and exciting at the same time.