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Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

Join us in a UK hyperlocal alliance… « Talk About Local (alpha) - Will Perrin is on a mission to engage and convene localities via the web. "After So i quit my job and set up Talk About Local to bring locally created and locally owned websites to communities across the country." Learn more here.

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The Future of the Map – With Live Demos of GIS Platforms

NTEN

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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Member Round Up: Fundraising, awards, and.boot camp?

NTEN

Flickr: Julia Folsom As the clear skies of autumn give way to winter's moody precipitates here in Portland, Oregon, we can feel cozier by staying connected to our communities. Additionally, the Regional Representative will receive a trip to the 2013 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Washington, DC.

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New Year's Resolution: Do Something About That Pile of E-Waste

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My Flickr Photo from a visit to Freegeek in Portland, Oregon. Earlier this month, I was in Portland, Oregon and had an opportunity to visit FreeGeek , a computer recylcing organization. What are your best tips and resources for finding a responsible local computer recycler? I put them in a corner. Ah, that felt great.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

And speaking of images, we want to allow people to add notes like Flickr does. Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

obama reach vs local reach. next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc. Any resources to move from national to local? what things need to be measured. industry benchmarks.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Read More » Local Government Web Managers Notes: Responding to Economic Uncertainty Michael Walsh in Influence 18 May 2010 In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. We also saw some.