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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. If the Wikipedia community can build Wikipedia with the smallest handful of grant dollars and paid staff, what could the AIDs community do if it embraced these tools? Google Maps. Podcasting. Text messaging.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Grantmakers

Connection Cafe

In fact Wikipedia lists 47 cultural celebrations of new years that are celebrated at other times throughout the year, such as the Chinese New Year and Rosh Hashanah. Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941.

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What is a community centric spread campaign?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I must admit when I hear about Community Driven Spread Campaigns, I can't help but visualize a baby boomer celebrating their 50th birthday and sharing a huge dark chocolate chocolate cake with friends, family, and various people from their social networks.

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Guerilla Gardening: International Sunflower Guerrilla Day

Have Fun - Do Good

Celebrate nature's fertility. Wikipedia and Primals Seeds' guerilla gardening entries (via Mancubist's Guerilla Gardening in Urbis) Treehuggers' Sean Canavan--Guerilla Gardener Extraordinaire. Now it is an organizing space for people all over fighting the, "war against the neglect of public space." Why sunflowers? We need to grow them.

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New Name, Everything's OK, Photo, Soul Food, Ordinary Joy, Achieve, Defining Moment: More Reverb 10

Have Fun - Do Good

Elizabeth has so many possible nicknames (95 according to Wikipedia). Although it's fun to have an unusual name like Britt, I always wanted to have a name that could be turned into a nickname. In 2011, I'd actually like to spend less time trying to achieve something, and more time relaxing, being and appreciating what I already have.

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In With the QR In Crowd

Connection Cafe

The organization was celebrating its 40 year anniversary and several very fabulous accomplishments, too. I know what you’re thinking: I have no idea what a QR code is and that link to the Wikipedia article isn’t going to cut it. Author: Emily Goodstein. So, allow me to take a moment to explain what I’m talking about.

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