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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.) Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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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.) Do you have ideas or feelings about the questions above?

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7 Things That Social Media Will Enhance

NCE Social Media

Empowerment of niches communities and small businesses – It used to be that only in a city someone could find others with a shared interest in an area outside of popular culture. These communities, the mix of individuals across microblogging, social networks orums and videos, are speaking to a given company.

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Causes Leaves MySpace: Should We Care?

Tech Soup

My colleague Amy wrote in a Stanford Social Innovation Review column , "The debate around social media and the Internet in general as a leveling force is still heated from all sides. Yes you can claim that anyone has the power to blog, but that's really only the people who have access to the tools and the time and the empowerment.

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How Nonprofits Can Benefit from Cause-Related Marketing

Care2

Densen has developed innovative programs ranging from demystifying the language of Wall Street for AARP Financial to an alliance focused on minority financial empowerment that brings together the ING Foundation with Girls Inc. Tags: Cause Marketing Social Networking.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

” It turns out that Facebook news feeds are moving away from being a social network to allow a stream of business advertisers to have precedence. In the midst of a pivotal moment in patient engagement and empowerment, our microphone has been turned off. How can you have a revolution if no one shows up?

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society." Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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