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Great reads from around the web on April 17th

Amy Sample Ward

Silos Culture Inside the Walls of Nonprofits Prevent Effective Social Media Use - Beth Kanter's post about internal silos in nonprofits reminds me of a post and the ensuing conversation that happened in the comments on my blog about a month ago. " Apps for America Contest - Check out some of these really innovative (and cool!)

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c Will clean up later. Activism has evolved beyond sit-ins.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. For others, the concept of ???public Details are here.

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Data Portability for Good

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Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest , sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating at least one data feed from Data.gov , in an effort to make government data accessible and usable. Use an international standard for time.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

engage internally. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section. Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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Forum One Staff Share OpenGov Ideas

Forum One

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. Young Adult International Development Community. Vote for this Idea].

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Reflections from SexTech Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference participants are a mix of people from nonprofits, schools, policy centers, researchers, universities, government, and young people. Geoff Livingston , my business partner at Zoetica , moderated the session which was called "Social Media Rockstars: Widgets, Apps, Contests, and More.