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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

Use the tag #MPS09 to follow conversations and highlights from others at the event. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. business model that supports the gifts. Tags: case studies maps free gift economy health mps09 patientopinion. It’s about death. Why do we tell stories?

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream! Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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More Home Analogies: the Potluck Model for Participation

Museum 2.0

Whether those collaborations take the form of the set of Amazon book reviews that affect your purchasing or the development of wikipedia entries, short-format contributions can be quickly assembled into a reasonable composite. Potlucks are a great model for “good sharing.” application like MySpace or Wikipedia. On Wikipedia?

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is. It’s really worth a read. at 2:54 pm Just checking in to say how much I enjoy your blog.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You