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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 tools and websites. tools and websites. The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. websites (e.g.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Citizen-Powered Response.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine.

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

Tech Soup

In an effort to understand where our information is going and what kind of a “digital shadow” we cast, I checked out a few easy-to-use tools to better see who’s seeing me. Lightbeam for Mozilla* Firefox users, is an add-on that maps out what first and third-party sites you visit on the web. …How'd it go?!

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). Google Maps. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2

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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. the patientopinion platform has tools that anyone can use, ie you are going to go out and do something, you tell us what you want, we build it and you pay for it, then we give it to you and you can go do what you want. Increasing return systems are: digital.

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