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Lame spams of the day: confirmation from [insert social network name]

Robert Weiner

In the past 2 days I've received spams in the form of confirmations from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare. Sure you're ready to let go of your friends, music, and that profile design you spent so much time creating? They don't look related, but it's an odd coincidence. Sender: Myspace (noreply@message.sease.com).

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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Living Between the Tides

NetWits

The record album business was broken by the cassette tape, which was then undone by the CD, then digital music files changed everything, and something else is sure to come along. The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. Kiva breaks it. Room to Read breaks it.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Blogs are connected - we're talking about a blogosphere. A rating of 100 or more is considered good in Romania.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. Charlene and Josh describe companies that provide custom communities—the people and the closed social network to support them—for the bargain price of several hundred thousand dollars.

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