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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

They also happen face to face at the NTC and other conferences. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. If you open up filesharing, you could expose your members to viruses, unhelpful or inappropriate content, or spam. Further reading: http :// www.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few years ago at conferences I started asking my colleagues in the nonprofit technology field if they had a weblog. They are both spam magnets and I have enough trouble dealing with email spam as it is. As for social bookmarking, it's a great first step in the direction of emergent taxonomies.