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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. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. A gift economy for the public sector? Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. PledgeBank.

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…Who Knows *What* About Me?! Four Tools that Show You How You’re Tracked Online

Tech Soup

According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” Lightbeam for Mozilla* Firefox users, is an add-on that maps out what first and third-party sites you visit on the web. This page from Cleveland’s Public Library (Woot!)

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data. They need something to put into a perspective that they relate to intuitively.

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Getting Rich off the Gift Economy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic. That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ??? People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. People who???s MySpace , etc.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

public information??? Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! When Web Sites Become Web Services from the Read/Write Web. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! For me, the web and 2.0 For others, the concept of ???public

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. Photo sharing websites have been around for over a decade, but Flickr was one of the first photo sharing services to use keyword tags to encourage connections between photos and users. Enable public feedback on assignments. That means you can subscribe.

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