Jonathon D. Colman

What do you think? Is her curmudgeon-ness warranted? - Marnie Webb

In a way I think it is warranted. She makes some very good points, and she follows up with an action plan, which I think makes the overall post quite positive. - Laura Norvig

Looking forward to digging into the content. - Marnie Webb via Bookmarklet

thanks for this ... I'm big into gmail too .. - Beth Kanter

jcolman - what do you think? - Beth Kanter via Bookmarklet

I've been thinking a lot about social search for a while. And although there's likely to be a lot of worrying and fear-mongering about it in our industry (and others), overall I think that it's a really good thing. As presented here, social search helps our causes' best supporters create search structures that aid them in returning to our web sites. - Jonathon D. Colman

Remember that search is, essentially *already* influenced by social actions. As web managers, we all ascribe credibility and relevancy to resources online by linking to them -- and search engines take note of those actions when they rank sites. - Jonathon D. Colman

Other thoughts and ideas? - Jonathon D. Colman

add more feeds, take off all automated feeds, only certain feeds? - Beth Kanter

Agreed that I may be in the old fart intentional community with you. But I already get the automated stuff via twitter, rss, yahoo pipes, etc etc. I want some intentional communities. So wondering how the two -- intentional and automated -- fit together. A new tag nptechff could be one way to manage it but what else? - Marnie Webb

the positive aspect of bringing the feeds in was that the room had something posted every day so it stayed as a fresh and current room, which floats it to the top of people's room lists. I'd be in favor of bringing a few select blogs in. the twitter stuff was overkill, IMO. - Laura Norvig

An interesting discussion about fundraising on facebook and how most folks are disappointed with it. IMHO, this is completely understandable since most folks just look at the # of Facebook users and expect them all to convert instantly upon arrival of their nonprofit brand. But that's not how communities work. We have to find meaningful, relevant ways to engage those users in order to gain their trust and support. That involves listening and experimenting with strategies, like the one that I propose in a comment to the above-linked post. :) - Jonathon D. Colman

here's more - Beth Kanter

pretty amazing how viral this has gone - Beth Kanter

great use of twitter to report on the progress of democracy. Also great example of aggregating/organizing the communicating that people are *already* doing. - Marnie Webb via Bookmarklet

Love it! - Jonathon D. Colman

some more http://beth.typepad.com/beths_... - Beth Kanter

Playing around with making ubiquity commands. Let me know what you think of this one that finds actions related to a word or phrase (highlighted or typed) via Social Actions search. - Marnie Webb via Bookmarklet

My new NetSquared blog. It's fun to use Drupal as a lowly community member, yet weird to have all the functionality I'm used to hidden. - Laura Norvig via Bookmarklet

Glad to see you on the Net2 community site. - Marnie Webb

Thanks, Marnie! I used to spend a fair amount of time on TechSoup - I need to explore NetSquared more. - Laura Norvig

Let me know if you need any help. We have a LOT on the site and it can be hard to move around sometimes. We're working on it but it always feels the perfect site is just out of our grasp. - Marnie Webb

Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design is a manual aimed at helping NGOs and advocates strengthen their campaigns and projects through communicating vital information with greater impact. This project aims to raise awareness, introduce concepts, and promote good practice in information design – a powerful tool for advocacy, outreach, research, organization and education. - Marnie Webb

I'm getting them, too and found your post. Thanks for writing this up -- good to know that I'm not alone! :) - Jonathon D. Colman

if you find good stuff here and want to save for later - Beth Kanter via Bookmarklet

This looks really good and very much needed. Often use tumblr to save some things for later, and other tools too. - Laura Whitehead

Finally, Learn and Serve America, a division of the Corporation for National and Community Service, recently announced that the Phoenix Project will receive $550,000 to encourage increased levels of service and civic participation by college students throughout the United States. The Phoenix Project, together with partners George Mason University and Craigslist Foundation, will use the grant to research whether and how social media tools can engage more students in service to the nonprofit and municipal agencies confronting difficult challenges within their communities nationwide. If unmet needs are identified through the research, the partnership aims to use social media tools to respond to those community needs and increase student service. - Reed Stockman

I usually say that 'social networking' or 'social networks' are the 'private side' (facebook, linkedin, etc) , and 'social media' the 'public side' (digg, delicious, flickr, youtube, twitter, friendfeed) - Alex Barredo

I rather like danah boyd's definition of a social network site: We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.(http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/...) - Fitzgerald Steele

what's interesting to me is how people define the word 'media'. I was originally thinking of it as mediums that go beyond words so, photos, videos - hence flickr and youtube as 'social media'. There is also the sense of media in its common use as 'news'. However, there is another thread on FF, which I can't find now, that defines media as 'the medium in which people communicate' hence blogs, email, discussion groups are all social media. - Laura Norvig

this is from technorati state of the blogosphere 2008 - Beth Kanter via Bookmarklet

Cool use of Social Media to promote awareness of Global Poverty issues - Austin Hill via Bookmarklet

good overview of FF - Laura Whitehead

"You've heard of hybrids, electric cars and vehicles that can run on vegetable oil. But of all the contenders in the quest to produce the ultimate fuel-efficient car, this could be the first one to let you say, "fill it up with air." The compressed air car planned for the U.S. market would be a six-seater, a New York company says. That's the idea behind the compressed air car, which backers say could achieve a fuel economy of 106 miles per gallon. Plenty of skepticism exists, but with many Americans trying to escape sticker shock at the gas pump, the concept is generating buzz. The technology has been the focus of MDI, a European company founded in 1991 by a French inventor and former race car engineer. New York-based Zero Pollution Motors is the first firm to obtain a license from MDI to produce the cars in the United States, pledging to deliver the first models in 2010 at a price tag of less than $18,000" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

"We owe our lives to trees. Trees provide far more than furniture and fuel. Everyone finds forests to be beautiful, but not many know how hardworking forests really are. The world’s great forests help make our planet hospitable to life; they purify the air, manage nutrients, capture greenhouse gases, create soil, regulate wind and ocean currents, house two-thirds of the world’s plant and animal species, cool the globe, provide subsistence or jobs to 1.6 billion people, and even play a role in weather systems. And yet, the world’s forests are critically threatened. Though, like amazing threatened species, there are hundreds of endangered forests and other beautiful aspects of nature, the following forests are visually stunning, ecologically precious, unique and simply wondrous and you don’t have to go vegan to help them out." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

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