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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Mashups are great. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. We have seen plenty of mashups where a website is able to push together a mapping tool, some public data, and user-created content like comments. Mashups of applications and spaces, not just information. I love them!

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. Probably missed it from scanning the 1200 panel names and titles - so add it in a comment. To vote: 1.

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"Book Discovery" and Policy Impact

Forum One

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. I'd say the use of XML to make content as linkable and mashable as possible is great - but may be a bit out of reach just now. So in the short run, I'd say put policy analysis and policy content.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. Do mashups and the notion of content remix finally fulfill the promises once made by proponents of learning objects?

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Read his comments here. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. So here goes: 1. WHY did I remove ???Non Non Commercial???

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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The Great YouTube Copyright Debate

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In general, it may be considered fair use if you are reproducing a work for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. During the Webinar with Michael Hughes of See3, the question of fair use came up, specifically around the mashup that was made to promote NTEN video content.