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Great reads from around the web on September 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Looking forward to 2009

Judi Sohn

Yes, we’re making a difference against colorectal cancer, and that’s ultimately our big-picture goal. Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. But we’re getting there with a series of small steps.

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Not exactly as simply as the goldfish, but one that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Events: NetSquared Camps. Case Studies.

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Nonprofit Use of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

for the big picture look. This visual is for the panel session at netsquared called " I tag the hand that feeds me: examining tagging in the nonprofit world. Nonprofit Use of Tagging Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Playing with visuals. Have a story to illustrate an organizational example - a composite of tales.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. Not exactly a simple circle, but a cycle that after a few steps feeds back to the beginning. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. For those that can’t tell, this is a picture of a clock on the face of a coffee maker. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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App Recommendations from TechSoup Staff: Part Two

Tech Soup

Elijah van der Giessen, NetSquared Community Manager. Their team of journalists pull together a politics and technology news feed that condenses the essential information of the day and makes easy to look at on the small screen. You can select channels, such as historic pictures or great new restaurants.

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