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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

Analyzing Public Comments in the Detroit Free Press Online The pre-vote public commentary in the Detroit Free Press about the millage is like any online newspaper commentary: polarizing, extreme, and highly varied in tone and reasonableness. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net Tuesday Seattle has been in the local press too! AFP Blog points the Mindblizzard Blog story about how the Dutch Red Cross will begin fundraising in Second Life using Yike Strum , a top model, as their Red Cross ambassador. NetSquared. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NpTech Talk.

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Convio Opens the Kimono

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I received an embargoed press release in my email about Convio's Open Initiative. Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches. It appears that Convio is more closely modeling their initiative after the wild success of software-as-a-service giant Salesforce.com. When I arrived in Boston, I was waiting for my luggage.

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Team Obama ranked #1 most innovative by Fast Company

Connection Cafe

The true mystery lies in how we tap into this power and harness the vast WWW for our personal needs, whether they be to engage constituents, make money for a business, tap into a new demographic for a cause – the list could go on forever - and how to take what seem like highly successful anomalies and turn them into models to follow.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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Windows 8 on Older PCs?

Tech Soup

I've been following the IT press as it's been covering the much-publicized Windows 8 launch over the last few months. The press reports I found mostly concurred that Windows 8 seems to work well on two- or three-year-old equipment, but what about a vintage seven year old PC? The vintage 2.8 – still pretty low.

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Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A single year’s worth of 990s costs over $2,500, arguably to recoup the costs of pressing and mailing all these dics. But rather than replicating each other’s efforts and then charging for access to the results, these groups could follow a more collaborative, open model. But there is no reason to charge for the Form 990 data at all.

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