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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Summer of Social Good by Mashable - "Summer of Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that.

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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

Have Fun • Do Good: Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us - "You cannot run a community if you're not informed. It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times."

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Twive and Receive Reveals the Top 20 Most Generous Cities & Who Would Win In A Fight Between the Hulk and a Kitten | Razoo Media Room – "Julie Nations, the Executive Director of The Ellie Fund said “It’s been the best communications outreach program we’ve ever done.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.” Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space.

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Things We Like (March 2009)

NTEN

IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. But where's the TARP of nonprofit funding? (Oh, and if you want to drive yourself insane, try this hi-def version.). The appropriation of big ideas for good. Social actions wants you to tap their API.

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The Lurker to Contributor Ratio: Tagging Communities Compared To Other Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? project 2007 Survey , Via Stephen Downes comes a pointer to a David White's JISC funded ???SPIRE??? online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. project 2007 Survey , a British-based, of 1400 respondents, on the use of Web 2.0 technologies.

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NPTimes TechnoBuzz: Telling Stories Online Makes That Vital Connection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools and fund raising. It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. This week's TechnoBuzz Newsletter has an excellent piece by Jonah Sachs from FreeRange Studios on online storytelling, making the point that you don't need the latest web2.0 workshops for July.

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