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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.)

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New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead

Amy Sample Ward

I blogged earlier this year about research that indicates very strongly we’ve replicated our offline social barriers and segmentation in our online social networking platforms. ( Visit danah boyd’s website for more information and research on this topic.)

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Twitter Community Organizing Rules for Non Profits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. I have noticed that many organizations don’t understand that Twitter is a social network of one on one peer relationships. Twitter does exactly that.

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Turning Engagement into Empowerment

Connection Cafe

We have strategies for crafting compelling email campaigns or fostering communities on different social networks. Gmail filters out the unimportant as a matter of course, people are getting savvier at managing their social networks, and when was the last time you answered the phone when you didn’t recognize the caller ID?