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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time. When people want knowledge, their first stop might not be a search engine.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A search engine for blog posts, this service illuminates the most popluar blog topics by day, week and month.

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Learning Resources for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Plus, we've got some techniques we recommend that are useful for targeted searches. Search engines like Google and Bing will often be your first stop when you have a question. Get more out of Google by using its advanced search techniques. Check out this handy search primer for Bing. " So handy.

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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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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

They have since published a report on The Real-Time Web and Its Future. The Real-Time Web: it's more than just immediate delivery of Twitter messages to an always-on mobile device, disrupting the concentration that civilization is based on and bringing a rush to crazed social media addicts obsessed with the hottest new buzzwords.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. Google Maps.