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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech.

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Friday Links: June 16th

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Communications How does your organization get its mission-driving info out to its supporters? The post attacks the enthusiam for massively collaborative web projects, in particular, Wikipedia: The hive mind is for the most part stupid and boring. Why pay attention to it?