Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. Do you think Open Source is like fair trade coffee ? How do you see gift economies operating in the nonprofit open source community, the nonprofit blogosphere, and nonprofit tech community in general? You can read about the 'web office 2.0' Go read it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. The question is "When is video a good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. " I'm sure we could find a few examples in America and elsewhere. I love that some nonprofits are sharing photos of their messy offices on Flickr! Here's an example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe. Google Blog Search.

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