Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 8, 2011
Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. These fall into two types: crises that originate in social media, and crises that originate offline.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Increasing return systems are: digital. Examples: Wikipedia. Digital gift economies turn free loaders into “audience.&#. Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too. loosely coupled.
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Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 22, 2009
Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, It is also important to bridge online conversations into mainstream media buzz and online engagement into offline action.
NTEN
AUGUST 31, 2010
Starting in the mid-1990s, telecenters provided a relatively quick and measurable way (# computers bought, # people trained) to show change in access (digital divide) and capacity building (Microsoft UP). Telecenters helped “prime the pump” in areas of ICT access market-failure.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 20, 2007
There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. She notes, "It doesn't specifically talk about open content, but discusses online and offline content income models in depth, with numbers." The site was developed by Democracy in Action.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 30, 2012
Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.
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