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NTEN Webinar: Social Media Building Blocks

Amy Sample Ward

Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. A webinar can be collaborative [ 1 ] and include polling and question & answer sessions to allow full participation between the audience and the presenter. First, what’s a web-inar?

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Infographic: How Do Social Network Users Lean Politically?

Care2

As political campaigns and nonprofits gear up for the election cycle, I thought I would share this infographic that attempts to map the politics of social media properties like Facebook and websites like Wikipedia. Predictive modeling was then used to map the politics of the social web.

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Who are the Millennials?

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In the four decades since the development of Election Day exit polling, this is the largest gap ever seen in a presidential election between the votes of those under and over age 30.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A search engine that “knows millions of things” about people, places, and history, Qwiki takes the information from your Wikipedia Page and converts it into a more visual format complete with audio, video, digital photography, and the ability to “Improve This Qwiki.” TwtPoll :: twtpoll.com.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Video, Wikis, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking Wikiscan let's you see who is editing wikipedia as mentioned in a recent Wired Magazine article. Some say it is impossible and a poll by wikimedians here. But there isn't much about the demographics of who is using wikis, particularly their age.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

Time then to ping mainstream news sources, image search and his Wikipedia page to check for updates. There would be no reason for Google to poll websites for changes over and over again. Patrick Swayze is being talked about a lot all the sudden on Twitter? Real-Time Publishing.

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