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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. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

What are some examples of knowledge sharing networks? For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Let's look at another example of this in practice. And for good reason.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Let’s look at another example of this in practice.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

These days everyone is releasing it, visualizing it, aggregating it, and mashing it up. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Let’s look at another example of this in practice.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Can you give me an example of some advice you've given some nonprofits? For example, in certain circumstances I'd tell people to base their posts on three basic forms: short announcements, medium length excerpts from elsewhere with commentary and very occasional long posts of original content. You mentioned that you do blog coaching.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. a conference).

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