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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Here are my slides from the presentation. Direct Content.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

NetSquared is here to help you along the way with everything from slide templates to planning checklists. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. San Francisco, California: Summer Service with Net Impact SF Pro. Boston, Massachusetts: Nonprofit Tech Alchemy: From Ideas to Impact.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

By moving others move - the aim is to impact the person who needs to be moved to the other side. His slides and my notes and reflections follow. He pointed to the Japanese wikipedia page noting that in Japan, the cultural norm is for the group to discuss the page in the discussion area before developing the content together.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Economic Impacts. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. The session outline is as follows: Introduction.

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