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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 8th).

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Some Little Known Faith-Based Technology Resources

Tech Soup

to share files, and sundry web applications for online communications. Church Technology Listservs. I’ve been following the discussions on the Unitarian Universalist techie listserv and it’s a great information sharing group. Another is the ChurchMgmtSoftware listserv. Additional TechSoup Resources.

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Tips for Managing and Engaging Online Communities

Care2

Before Web 2.0 took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. Remember them? Should they be moderated?

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. I was struck by Marnie’s comments on this and ask her to explain them on a FLIP video interview. She also blogged a few thoughts.

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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I didn't loose a whole lot more because most of my work is now "backed up" or inside of web applications. Not everyone I work with has moved away from Word/Excel -- so I'm finding myself with one foot in the web-based collaboration tools and the other foot stuck in Microsoft Office. Wikis are just great for that!

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. The work in progress is here.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her friends through out the social web responded and put together the campaign: Watch and listen to Connie Reece explain what this campaign is all about and why it is important to her. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. View the list of people who contributed their smarts, hearts, and souls to this campaign.

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