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

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 27, 2009 - 8:28am
"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. "

extrACT | Center for Future Civic Media

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 24, 2009 - 10:31am
data, data, data.

this is it. The big one : clusterflock

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 24, 2009 - 10:21am
Ted's interview with Clay Shirky, on Iran.

Crowdsourcing? Here are four lessons from the Guardian

Technorati tag feed for net2 - June 24, 2009 - 10:07am
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,
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GroundReport

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 24, 2009 - 9:53am
"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."

Freebase Hack Day II: The Return of Hack Day (The Freebase Blog)

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 23, 2009 - 1:05pm
Freebase is a terrific data resource. Build on top of a ton of free data.

Becoming an Organizational Newsmaster (ext337 wiki)

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 23, 2009 - 10:30am
Updated this handout -- adding resources and a listening .ppt -- in preparation for session at NCVS.

A Good Problem: Bringing Philanthropy and Service Together

Technorati tag feed for net2 - June 23, 2009 - 8:17am
I have somehow forgotten how to use the internet and am unable to leave a comment in response to where do philanthropy and service meet? on the Social Citizens blog.  So, here it is. I think that the broader idea of service — the one that is receiving so much attention these days — is about bringing the face-to-face actions of volunteering together with philanthropy in a way that creates a bigger-than-a-sum-of-its-parts kind of change. Often these two streams (volunteering and large sca
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Taking the Web into our own hands, one computer at a time

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 22, 2009 - 10:09pm
"Our computers are only dumb terminals connected to other computers (meaning servers) owned by other people — such as large corporations — who we depend upon to host our words, thoughts, and images. We depend on them to do it well and with our best interests at heart. We place our trust in these third parties, and we hope for the best, but as long as our own computers are not first class citizens on the Web, we are merely tenants, and hosting companies are the landlords of the Internet."

All for Good API Reference Guide

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 22, 2009 - 1:21pm
Just like the title says.

YouTube - YTVideoVolunteers's Channel

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 22, 2009 - 6:40am
sniff test. why didn't youtube just hire zefrank to do this? the spokespeople rip off his cadence and delivery, but miss the gonzo-ness that makes zefrank compelling.

PHILANTHROPY 2173: Change native to the digital world

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 20, 2009 - 8:03am
Organizations that are built on and use digital tools to manage and deliver their work.

Enhancing Online Citizen Participation Through Policy (OSTP Blog)

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 18, 2009 - 8:28am
The White House has to examine its cookie policy as it looks to incorporate more web 2.0 services and to track the effectiveness of those services.

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org | remixing the web for social change

del.icio.us feed for net2 tag - June 16, 2009 - 4:20am
Today the global community stands witness to a momentous time in history where progressive change is not only necessary, but imminent. At NetSquared, we recognize that mandate and believe the social Web is key to making change. NetSquared works toward this goal by mobilizing individuals and communities, providing Web-based tools, and awarding financial support to leverage social action projects.

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