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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. A blog is more than a personal journal. Personality is important. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. Niche content.

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Tags and Web2.0

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

But personally, tagging and social bookmarking are an essential part of how I use the web. The Wikipedia article on it is clean and concise and points to a lot of important sites. If you click on the reference to those others, it will show you all those citations -- anonymously -- and you can see how each person tagged it.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. s a folksonomy. sharpie.???