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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Rapid advances in digital media and technology are changing how we connect to information and each other. org inspired him in ways he never imagined." Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. The way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

Three specific examples that are very different include: Connectipedia : a wiki-based platform that allows anyone interested in philanthropy or social impact in the Pacific Northwest (or beyond) to share research, resources, information, or data about people, places and topics. org campaign has done really well. Embrace storytelling.

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Events: NetSquared Camps. Community Driven Social Impact strategies for events – let’s look at the NetSquared Camps pilot. Case Studies.

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Looking forward to 2009

Judi Sohn

One thing I think C3 (my org) does well is that we take a lot of short, successful hops. Who needs a lot of data and background information and who needs us to cut to the chase. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested. Social Actions Blog.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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9 Steps to Prioritize Nonprofit Social Media Training and Experimentation

Have Fun - Do Good

Here's my contribution to this month's Net2ThinkTank question posed by Amy Sample Ward, "What are the key questions nonprofit orgs should ask to help them determine how to prioritize social media training and experimentation as they do their technology and organization-strengthening planning?" Cross-posted from NetSquared. What a pain!"

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Comment, Blog it, tag it NpTech, and/or start a blog over at the Netsquared site. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 GetInvolved Blog shares a summary from the Sunlight Foundation and Berkman Center all day session called "Local Political Information in an Internet Era."

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