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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. There are different rules and new opportunities with online fundraising and every platform or application comes with a different community and varying functionality.

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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd

Amy Sample Ward

I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. Ushahidi : most recently, Ushahidi adpated it’s platform for use in Haiti and Chili to let the crowd both in Haiti/Chili and outside share information and data in real time via mobiles or a web browser.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Where are they: which platforms or tools do they use and when do they use them? Don’t ever go for a new, shiny, cool social media platform or tool simply because you’ve heard others talking about. The Gardener creates an ecosystem open to change, available to new groups, and full of fresh opportunities to emerge naturally.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversation Tracking in the NpTech Space There quite a blog buzz about the need for a Netsquared European Remix going on. Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? David Wilcox riffs on Steve Bridger's shout.

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

NetSquared Open Space (NOS): APIs and Open Data. Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. What : Learn how your organization could use open data and APIs to show your impact, coordinate volunteers, or inspire supporters to take action. Thursday, April 8, 2010.

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Joe Solomon, Guest Post: What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

org Actions " We're coordinating a distributed day of events for 24 October 2009 , uniting the world around a common call to action--and we're asking you to help. org model enables any individual or organization around the world to create and promote events ("actions") - with a call to action for a fair global climate treaty.

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