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Nonprofit Use of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Use of Tagging Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. for the big picture look. This visual is for the panel session at netsquared called " I tag the hand that feeds me: examining tagging in the nonprofit world. Playing with visuals. My other brainstorming is here.

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Net2 Think Tank & Social Innovation Review: Changing Role of Nonprofits

Amy Sample Ward

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." What caption would you add to this picture ? The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Great reads from around the web on September 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

If we are looking for pictures of our communities — the digital education needed and accessed, the policies that need to be addressed, the services being offered — then we need to include the views of all members of our communities."

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Interview with NetSquared project manager Mark Liu: Part 1

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Today, Mark is the manager of TechSoup's NetSquared initiative, a project designed to make sure the non-for-profit sector gets involved early and actively with the newest tools and trends in internet technology. And once we got through catching up, I admitted to him that I was just a bit perplexed about the NetSquared project.

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Ushahidi's Next Steps

Tech Soup

We've discussed Ushahidi here before; the project won last year's NetSquared Mashup Challenge. In short, Ushahidi aggregates information from text messages and other media, presenting a clearer picture of a crisis situation as it emerges. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Interview: Avi Kaplan, Epic Change for TweetsGiving

Amy Sample Ward

Originally posted on the NetSquared blog. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter.

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