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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. For example, a tool created to allow a community to map local water quality data can easily be re-purposed for a neighboring community, or one across the world. as a tool and organizational back-end for a local non-profit. What do we want?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. eBay and Amazon assign ratings to sellers and reviewers respectively, based on whether other members in the community had a good experience with them.

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An Interview of Heather Cronk, PledgeBank: Advice On Raising Money on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This conditional aspect means that there is a higher chance of folks actually following through when the target is met; in fact, we have seen a 75% return rate on money-related pledges, with pledge signers eventually donating anywhere from 50%-150% of what they originally pledged. " Really, the applications are pretty limitless.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

While there are many juried exhibitions that feature an open call, and a few exhibitions that allow visitor judging or rating, I don't know of any besides Click that do BOTH these things. You rate yourself from knowing "nothing" about art to being an "expert" on a 1 to 5 scale. It is 100% community-based. Anyone can submit art.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. Think Nielsen Ratings ). And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. source: Chris Brogan).

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. media: local and national. looked at incoming links and rate of growth. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

Museum 2.0

Many businesses are putting the job of judging and prioritizing suggestions in the hands of their customers by allowing them to rate each other's suggestions. The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions.

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