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links for 2009-07-04

Marnie Webb — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:30:50 GMT

Calling public benefit organizations: How can we help you? :: The Mozilla Blog

(tags: moilla service volunteer technology nptech net2)
Google Moderator

(tags: google moderator crowdsource tools collaboration net2)

links for 2009-06-27

Marnie Webb — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:31:33 GMT

Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org

"5. Neighborhoods beat networks. Twitter's network effects don't feel much like standard ones. I can subscribe to your feed, yet you don't have to subscribe to mine — times millions. What's going on here? Twitter realizes neighborhood effects, not just network effects: complex sets of intersecting, overlapping, mutually reinforcing network effects. Oprah's followers are a neighborhood, and so are Ashton's. You can benefit from joining many of these neighborhoods — not just one larger network. "

(tags: twitter innovation net2 community connectivity)
Commentary – The Changing Game of Leadership

"To fulfill the high calling of leadership, managers need to move toward a more professional attitude, away from dependence upon the welter of quick fix techniques heaped upon them by most management books and articles. Such a technique-oriented approach to leadership development demeans management. Too many managers already fail to regard management as a profession. They think, how could management possibly be a profession? After all, aren’t managers are made overnight when they are promoted from being workers? And don’t most succeed? It’s easy to see why managers assume there must be nothing in the role that amounts to a substantial profession."

(tags: leadership management resource design hr)

links for 2009-06-25

Marnie Webb — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:30:50 GMT

City launches new push for broadband (Crain's Chicago Business)

"Chicago is angling for about $100 million in federal stimulus money to build a high-speed Internet network that would reach some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. City officials have seized on the stimulus program as a second chance to bring broadband service to underserved areas like the South Side, after a more ambitious proposal to blanket the city with a wireless Internet signal fizzled in 2007. In the next few months, they plan to apply for federal funds to provide high-speed Internet access to tens of thousands of Chicago residents and a multitude of businesses."

(tags: broadband chicago stimulus)

links for 2009-06-24

Marnie Webb — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:31:11 GMT

extrACT | Center for Future Civic Media

data, data, data.

(tags: data activism mit open net2)
Be Bold With Broadband, Wired.com Readers Tell Feds (Wired.com)

Be bold or go home. That's what they say.

(tags: broadband fcc government stimuls public comments)
this is it. The big one : clusterflock

Ted's interview with Clay Shirky, on Iran.

(tags: twitter ted clayshirky net2 nptech)
Knowledge Plaza

"Knowledge Plaza is an easy-to-use, open, flexible and intuitive solution for sharing information and knowledge. The Plaza is the meeting place between those who know and those who search, at the intersection of internal information and external sources."

(tags: collaboration knowledge search management tools resource)
OLPC software to power aging PCs (BBC NEWS)

"Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can now be used to power any old PC. Sugar on a Stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a new look and access to collaborative educational software. "

Sugar on a Stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a new look and access to collaborative educational software.

(tags: nptech os recycle olpc software aging reuse)
GroundReport

"GroundReport is the most selective citizen news platform on the web, empowering reporters around the world to post news and earn money. Every day GroundReport’s network of 5,000 international contributors publish breaking articles, videos and photos. Reports are vetted by a trusted corps of trained editors prior to publication, and then rated by the GroundReport community."

(tags: news journalsim media community net2 groundreport)

Crowdsourcing? Here are four lessons from the Guardian

Marnie Webb — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:07:51 GMT

The Guardian enlisted over 20,000 people to comb through hundreds of thousands of documents to find, as they said, the needle in the haystack. From the article, Four crowdsourcing lessions from the Guardian’s (spectacular) expenses-scandal experiment:

Journalism has been crowdsourced before, but it’s the scale of the Guardian’s project — 170,000 documents reviewed in the first 80 hours, thanks to a visitor participation rate of 56 percent — that’s breathtaking. We wanted the details, so I rang up the developer, Simon Willison, for his tips about deadline-driven software, the future of public records requests, and how a well-placed mugshot can make a blacked-out PDF feel like a detective story.

The four lessons are:

Your workers are unpaid, so make it fun.
Public attention is fickle, so launch immediately.
Speed is mandatory so use a framework.
Participation will come in one big burst, so have servers ready.

The whole article is certainly worth the read for the information behind those four points.

The thing I think is very interesting about this is not just the success of the effort and they way the Guardian built on the weeks and weeks of work of another organization, but they way in which they used their volunteers to triage information.

This need — to help triage information so that you are only looking at what is most important and requires your unique skill sets — can be applied to research, to disaster relief, to adding metadata to images, and on and on.

So, here’s the question: are you using your engaged participants to help you find the most worthwhile and relevant information upon which you can follow up? If not, why not?

(via Waxy.org links)

tagged: news, journalism, crowdsourcing, net2, nptech, engagement, volunteers

Links for 2008-06-17 [ma.gnolia]

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Web Use Project

Terrific presentation at Supernova 2008. Good data to dig into to help make change among certain populations.

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Tags: ntet2, nptech, research, webuse, skill
Social Media Used to Keep Flood Victims Informed - ReadWriteWeb

Getting information out to victims and their families during a disaster is a major issue for any relief organization. So while the Central United States recovers from a ...

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Tags: net2, nptech, social media, widgets, red cross, disaster
Cell Phone Culture::Spain's National Obsession with Mobiles, Texting | PBS

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Tags: mobile, spain
Pivot table galore: online tutorials and texts

Good pointers to online tutorials to amp your use of excel.

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Tags: nptech, tutorial, excel, online

Links for 2008-06-16 [ma.gnolia]

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

The Obvious?: Most companies who try to do Enterprise 2.0 will fail

Worth thinking about how the bullets manifest in the npo world.

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Tags: net2, nptech, enterprise 2.0, tips
TED | TEDBlog: Update: Ushahidi map tool WINS Mashup Challenge!

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Tags: net2, ushahidi, muc

Links for 2008-06-11 [ma.gnolia]

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

[scribkin] The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed

Just joined FriendFeed? Want to know some dirty secrets you can exploit to gain you popularity, followers and perhaps a bit of fame (or at least infamy)? If so, I have some tips for you! Keep reading and I’ll make you a master of the craft in no time.

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Tags: nptech, net2, friendfeed, tips
Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction - Bokardo

So the shift to public display, a shift to expected social interaction, changed the way the students learned and the effort they put into their education. If that’s not an incentive to experiment with and use social software I don’t know what is. Social software isn’t just a new way to work, it changes the effort we put into that work. Now there is a sound byte for social media consultants.

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Tags: net2, social media, interaction. learning, nptech
A VC: Managing "Unproductive" Meetings

I tend to call "unproductive meetings" "conversations." I'm just saying. There are lots of reasons to do things that don't have an immediate outcome.

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Tags: meetings, time, growth, interaction

Links for 2008-06-10 [ma.gnolia]

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

How to Write the Best Damn PowerPoint Headlines Ever : KnowHR Blog

Applies to a lot of .ppt headlnes. Not just from HR.

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Tags: ppt, headlines, presentations, tips, hr
Adobe Labs - kuler

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Tags: adobe, design, flickr

Links for 2008-06-09 [ma.gnolia]

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

VentureBeat WWDC Livestream - FriendFeed

Interesting use of a FriendFeed room. To follow a temporal event.

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Tags: friendfeed, net2, rooms
Public Learning Media Lab Wiki: Nonprofit Social Networking

I haven't had a chance to review the survey. Others?

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Links for 2008-06-02 [ma.gnolia]

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Creative Commons announces major funding support from Omidyar Network - Creative Commons

Congratulation to Creative Commons.

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Tags: net2, funding, creative commons, omidyar
John’s Blog » Blog Archive » Hybrids

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Tags: net2, feedback, n2y3

Links for 2008-05-31 [ma.gnolia]

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 PDT

Enterprise Adoption of Web 2.0: It's Happening - ReadWriteWeb

If you're a business who has been ignoring the Web 2.0 trend and the spread of social media: look out, the tide is shifting and you're about to ...

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Tags: net2, nptech, enterprise, adoption
Oh Boy Obama: User Generated Campaign Think Tank - ReadWriteWeb

Outsourcing research and development to customers via Digg-style voting is a hot trend for tech-savvy companies right now. Dell did it with IdeaStorm (our coverage), Starbucks did it ...

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Tags: net2, politics
3 Reasons FriendFeed Is Great -- and 3 Ways It Scares Me | PBS

what are your thoughts on friendfeed?

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Tags: net2, nptech, friendfeed
Android Developer Challenge - Android

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Tags: challenge, net2