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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. We sampled 201 ChatRoulette sessions, noting characteristics such as group size and gender.

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Great reads from around the web on August 15th

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia Rolling Out Article Rating System – What Do You Think? – "Love it or hate it, you can't say Wikipedia is slow to innovate. Article raters have the option of self-identifying as a subject matter expert for whatever article they rate."

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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. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Direct Content.

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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. rate the providers. When you move to the web, you have increasing returns to scale , but the number of people involved to affect the increasing returns are at a much larger scale (many more people, etc.). Increasing return systems are: digital. loosely coupled.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.). rating items. On our “ samples from the field ” section of our website, we have opted for a low-tech solution to shield against viruses and inappropriate content. Some are huge.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He notes that they have a 80% retention rate with members and "you can't do that without listening." There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Further you can check out their page rank, views, and technorati rating. Here's a few: Bloglines. Google Reader. Define Your Niche.