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Philanthropist 2.0: Crowdsourced Advised Funds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wikipedia is probably the best example of this, but I think it's possible to do much more. I've created a topic on Google Moderator where people can submit and vote on ideas. I've never used Google Moderator, but someone told me that it's good, so hopefully it works :). I already don't read the email I have -- I don't need more.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Discussion boards can be added to your website, leveraged in a Ning site, or you can use a google group or similar solution. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

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Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Real-Time Publishing. These services are fun and useful.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. A nice little utility that lets you embed google mymaps into your blog. Via LifeHacker , does google analytics make you say huh?

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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 told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Keywords are important, particularly in titles - if you want to show up in google. Needs an engine.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

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We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages. For many of these issues, good spam/virus filtering is essential.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.