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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. " I found article via a post from Maura Welch who writes the business filter blog on the Boston Globe site.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. apps (skype, myspace, flickr, etc) without knowing it's web 2.0. tools already out there.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Question Facebook’s Integrity, Longevity, and ROI (Return on Investment)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook would do well to follow the lead of Twitter, MySpace and YouTube. We’re building nonprofits, businesses, and brands around our Facebook communities, and yet every couple of months we wake up to new changes (made primarily to benefit Facebook’s revenue model) that we have to figure out for ourselves and scramble around.

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Social Media Adoption: The Line Between Individual/Personal and Organizational

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is really bizarre, but this afternoon I've been struggling with the notion about the connection between individual adoption and organizational adoption of social media tools like Facebook or others. Important to the corporation is the degree to which our striving for personal awareness and self-discover overlaps with business goals.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

So how do you design for that kind of maturity, and for kids who want a MySpace? We didn’t want to build MySpace. One of the vendors made a proposal to us with the phrase: “It’s MySpace meets NASA." For lots of people, it's overwhelming to jump in and embrace social networking as a basis for an educational tool.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. s no wonder she does not see SL as a next step. To me, SL has the potential to replace all of those social networks with personal 3D spaces, all linked via a pseudo-metaverse. I also have been around this.

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Web 2.0 Part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

tools – since in many ways, the most important aspects of Web 2.0 But there is a lot of hype regarding Web 2.0, and I want to talk about that hype, and talk about the possible pitfalls of jumping on the Web 2.0 But I’ll give you my quick definition: Web 2.0 The technologies generally connected to Web 2.0 bandwagon.

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