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GIft Economies at MPS09

Amy Sample Ward

The amazing thing about the web is what we can do with those impulses, stories, and gifts. the web creates visible real-time reputations. the web collapses distance and set up costs. Examples: YouTube, eBay, Wikipedia, Google. Examples: Wikipedia. What is it about the health community that’s different?

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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. I started thinking about how a lot of the online collaboration was taking place on the social web is between people who had never met each other and after they work together may meet each other. I learned so much and quickly wanted to share a few insights.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3.

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IT Planning with Scrum

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Along with other practices developed by the Agile Development movement, Scrum evolved to create a structure for modern software projects which take place in changing business environments with short lead times and continuously morphing requirements. Bring our web server in house? In a minute I'll give the a five-minute intro to Scrum.

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Opposing Salesforce.com attempt to TM "Social Enterprise"

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Wikipedia entry on this topic is extensive, and the most common usage in the marketplace is for the socially beneficial flavor of “social enterprise,” not the Salesforce one-year-old marketing campaign. Universities have programs on learning how to run social enterprises. The application is against the public interest.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Business Opportunities Web Blog Network. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Hiring people.

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Search Crystal: My Life Laid Out in Photos On The Web

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Here's how the site defines it: is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds. You can also use it to find out what is popular on Wikipedia or use the Search Analytics Toolbox in your browser.

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