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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

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Photo by Mushon. Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. I didn't facilitate it, but I participated. Heavy Metal Umlaut ???

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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

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video and photo-sharing sites like Youtube, Flickr, Dailymotion; blogging platforms such as Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad and Wordpress; social networking websites such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, Wikipedia, VoIP services; etc.); The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

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Photos by Jamie Stobie and used with permission from the photographer. For more information, here’s the Campus Party Wikipedia Page and here’s a BBC report on a Brazilian Campus Party.). Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. He has seen it all.

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

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Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. The Second C: Collaboration. The Third C: Community.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

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I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Needs an engine.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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