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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Described the difference between taxonomy and folksonomy. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity.

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Which Social Networking Analysis Term Best Describes Virgin America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Core are people who do most of the work (think wikipedia editors.) What is a good framework for designing a social network analysis mapping project so you get the most out of it? Process Steps One important lesson is that you should really spend the time framing the problem or your goal. The tools. Low-Tech Approaches.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. Brigade will merge Votizen and Causes to create a political organizing site that will that will “tackle the problem of declining citizen power and engagement in democracy.”

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Act 1: The Problem. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. There is a write-up of the project here. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later. re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s sharpie.???