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Nonprofits of the Month :: June 2010 :: Beyond Disasterous

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please follow, friend, subscribe and like: Twitter: International Bird Rescue Research Center. MySpace: Greenpeace. Wikipedia :: Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Facebook: Mobile Baykeeper. YouTube: Environmental Defense Fund. Flickr: SkyTruth. Related Links: Nonprofits of the Month :: May 2010 :: Holding Corporations Accountable.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

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And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Danah Boyd has found that, in spite of their seeming ability to promote a true public sphere, social networks may, in fact, be furthering social divisions : It wasn't just anyone who left MySpace to go to Facebook. What happened was modern day "white flight.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

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According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. Should I click that "OK" button? You might consider moving to OpenID. There is no real protection anywhere in life.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. " Findhabeas.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

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As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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