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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Low barrier to entry. Many channels, both personal and professional.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Online social networking was just being born. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year).

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool.

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Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009

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Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. What are your top nonprofit resolutions for 2009? Receive monthly updates.

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Creative Profiling: Tools for Defining and Understanding Your Audience

Museum 2.0

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. With social media and participatory experiences, we shouldn't just focus our design efforts on what sounds cool or is easy to conceive. design participatory museum.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."