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Weaving Together Online/Offline Collaboration In A Network Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I heard first hand from Eugene Eric Kim about strategic planning at Wikipedia. As he shared the story, I had some questions about weaving offline/online collaboration within networks. We most typically think of the offline/online as a sequence somewhat like this: Small group meets face-to-face - builds trust.

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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. Feedback to presentation: would want to involve staff and services in the offline local events to share their experiences, too. It’s about death. loosely coupled.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. Tags: ROI.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. .

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tags: listening socialmedia ). You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. To figure out your keywords, do a little brainstorming offline and then maybe use some online keyword tools. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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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. Tags: network effectiveness scholar working wikily. I've gotten into the.