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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. According to him, Markets For Good has a flawed understanding of beneficiaries as primarily consumers of information.

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Guest Post by Michaela Hackner: Community Matters Even At SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. We also "checked in" using FourSquare and Gowalla everywhere.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No Hype Online Fundraising A panel of nonprofit fundraisers will cut the hype on text-to-give, email solicitations, social media, e-Cards and other interactive fundraising strategies. The person tweeting is tasked to be on message as the voice of the organization while creating a unique and engaging personality to draw an audience in.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

Voice remains the killer app. With voice, many solutions for issues like the “market price” problem can be human engineered, as that information is now only a phone call away to a trusted source in a bigger market. Finally, there is a growing of m-hype which we should be aware and cautious of.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. But that’s already sounding like the grandiose hype you read about Second Life or virtual worlds. The Globally Accessible Museum.

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

Museum 2.0

There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. Now I appreciate how much cleaner an interface it is than voice messaging.

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