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DonorsChoose Interview & Social Media Challenge

Amy Sample Ward

My collaborator, JD Lasica , at SocialBrite has just posted the interview and details below. I recently buttonholed founder and CEO Charles Best to get a first-hand account of the groundbreaking charity and its model for funding public school projects around the country. DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us.

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Mr. Manager, Tear down this wall!

Forum One

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. Vivek Kundra, Chief Technical Officer, for the District of Columbia, discussed the District’s radical transformation a model of the to the digital public sphere model. Technorati Tags: wes08sep.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Chapter 3 is a discussion on Peer production – it talks about how it is that people have come together to collaboratively create software and content – basically, knowledge production. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. It’s really worth a read.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. And I also struggled with the consulting business model. Technorati Tags: consulting , nptech { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 04.17.07

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). And if you want everything, look in these spots: Technorati. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The contemporary organization is the wrong model for civil society, the corporate structure in particular is dysfunctional, and human beings fit more naturally and are more empowered in communities, movements, and networks. It builds connections with clients and collaborators. Collaborate. It hones my thinking.