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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

Nature Conservancy’s photo contests : The crowd, in this case it’s one that loves nature photos, shares the pictures they love about nature and in the process grow their community. Embrace storytelling. Tags: challenge community presentation beth kanter crowds crowdsourcing netsquared nten sxsw. This is something that the 350.org

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Deep in the Heart of #NPTech: It's time for our #15NTC Round-up

NTEN

Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Did we miss anything? Please let us know in the comments! 15NTC Community NTC press'

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Web Video for Social Benefit Sector: Some learnings.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His list of benefits include: Video is a powerful storytelling medium and has the potential to engage people and build relationship, particularly if using some of the video/social networking sites. They make it somewhat difficult to incorporate storytelling techniques. Attracts a younger (and perhaps more generous audience?).

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Whether it’s social media platforms or content that has captured the interest of the community – from citizen journalism to video storytelling.

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Free Graphics Software and Images

Tech Soup

I promise not to say anything about a picture being worth a thousand words, but in today’s ‘attention economy’ using images in our communications online or off is more important than ever in attracting attention. I particularly like the feature overview page that shows in pictures the kinds of things you can do with GIMP.

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