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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Why be in just one place when we can be in many? That might look like sharing a picture from a concert, while you are still at the concert.

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Cloud Computing Worldwide

Tech Soup

All this month, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. A View of the Cloud from the NetSquared Community Even among technologically inclined people, there's sometimes a reluctance to move to the cloud. But maybe that's not a bad thing.