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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content.

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Good Lord, another blog.

Museum 2.0

From closed content to open-source forums. No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable. But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums. The transition from "visitor" to "user." Should they be?

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Introduction. sharpie.???