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23 Things Online Summit Tomorrow

Tech Soup

This event is a special collaboration among WebJunction , the MaintainIT Project , the State Library of Kansas , and the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Tools Social Networking E-Learning Community Tech Centers Software Digital Divide Using the Web and Internet. Tags: Web Building Web 2.0 Register now! (

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NTC Day of Service: Our Tenth Year!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This annual event started over a decade ago in Kansas City as a way for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community by volunteering their expertise for a day. Tags: 10ntc. My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , has been involved since the beginning and I'm lucky every year to host the Day of Service with her.

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Foursquare is a location-based social network.      Think of it as a social network where your status up is not what you're doing, but where you are.   So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media. Photo by Neatonjr.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 There are two sets of social roles here.

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"Leveling the Playing Field" Through Broadband and Public Computers

NTEN

For example, a river float business with a web presence will lose out to other businesses that connect to customers over broadband through websites and commercial social networks like Facebook. The Kansas City IT department is "trying to get access into community centers," he added. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of “white flight” from MySpace to Facebook. Alec Ross from the State Department, who talked about “21 st Century Statecraft,” a concept of foreign relations that is focused on the power of networks.

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