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Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don't Use Social Media - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Mark Smithivas, Beth Dunn, Rebecca Leaman and Laura Norvig liked this
Are you the only person at work who likes to read blogs? Is it your job to sell things to people who would probably throw you out of their offices if you said the word "twitter?" Are you trying to reach audiences who've never visited a social networking website because they've heard those sites are used by no one but virus peddlers, sex fiends and 14 year old losers?
- Jonathon D. Colman
Obama: Families are off limits - http://www.politico.com/news...
R. Ferguson, Adam Bohannon, michael sean wright and 19 other people liked this
"At a press availability in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama said: "Back off these kinds of stories." "I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits," Obama said. "And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as a governor or her potential performance as a vice president. So I would strongly urge people to back off these kinds of stories. You know my mother had me when she was 18, and how a family deals with issues and teenage children, that shouldn’t be a topic of our politics.""
- sergiooo
from Bookmarklet
this where I take exception not with the attacks, they should not be allowed, however this exactly a topic very dear to a large part of America right now
- Fred Grott
Obama continues: "I am offended by that statement. There is no evidence at all that any of this involved us," he said. "Our people were not involved in any way in this, and they will not be. And if I thought there was somebody in my campaign who was involved in something like that, they would be fired." Makes me wish the bloggers DID work for him, and are now fired.
- Josh Haley
Mel: everyone who is subscribed to you sees everything you like. There's no need to reshare this.
- Mark Trapp
I believe that the campaigns themselves will honor this. But how do you control the independent groups? Tell them that you hate them so much that they stop targeting your opponent and start targeting you?
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
MelMcBride , I agree completely :) Not bothered at all. Everyone should Digg it or push it, whatever they do.
- sergiooo
Unfortunately, this is a noble idea that's virtually impossible to put in practice. The candidate himself can try to follow the rule, but the independent groups won't. And besides, at crunch time, every goes...
- Roberto Teixeira
from twhirl
Great to see Obama resisting petty ad hominem attacks that plague US politics.
- Adam Bohannon
+1 to Barack for this. Very classy.
- Dave Roth
Akiva Moskovitz and Beth Dunn liked this
I've got really exciting news, but can't tell you all for a few weeks ...
David Cohn, Michelle Murrain, Cathryn Hrudicka and 4 other people liked this
???
- Jonathon D. Colman
Always great to hear exciting news but my guess is this group is not particularly patient:) Any hints?
- Reed Stockman
This might be a good chance to work on a theory of social predictions... if we all make a guess and post to this comment thread, will our predictions change the outcome? :)
- Jonathon D. Colman
I guess: WeAreMedia got a big grant to further its work
- Laura Norvig
I guess: she's Obama's VP pick.
- Jonathon D. Colman
@laura @jcolman nope
- Beth Kanter
I hope to have really exciting news in a few weeks too, but I've been hoping that for years!
- Aldon Hynes
Beth - you know how to keep us on the edge of out seats.... can't wait to hear what it is... :D
- Laura Whitehead
you stinker! ;-)
- Michelle Murrain
I still want to know what people are guessing. My new guess: Nobel Prize.
- Jonathon D. Colman
I will get it out of you next time we see each other (coming up I think).
- David Cohn
@david cohn maybe I can talk about it by then ....
- Beth Kanter
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? - http://dowebsitesneedtolookexa...
The ne plus ultra of single serve sites?
- Brian Oberkirch
Houston Chronicle: Nonprofits should make use of social networks - http://www.chron.com/disp...
Ian Wilker, Jeff Stern, Beth Kanter and 4 other people liked this
Favorite quote: "The point is the personal touch — the humanizing of a massive hospital, the accessibility of contemporary arts, the quirks and interests of university professors, the work students produce in an after-school program."
- Jonathon D. Colman
Thought it was great - added it to wearemedia why section http://www.wearemedia.org/module+...
- Beth Kanter
Ed Schipul's quote is soooo reflective of my experience: "I can't actually do it for you," said Ed Schipul, founder and CEO of Schipul, a Web marketing firm that has a lot of nonprofits on its client list. "I can consult with you and help you recruit people within your organization, but I can't actually produce social media for you. I can only be your coach."
- Ian Wilker
VSV.org's Top Ten Ways For Nonprofits to Communicate Online - http://virtualsitevisit.org/mt_incl...
Danielle Brigida, Avi Kaplan, Beth Kanter and 5 other people liked this
Most of us know this information, but too many nonprofits and foundations still don't.
- Rachel Lea Fox
from Bookmarklet
Great advise, do it before you get too big!
- Theron Kelso
why can't I comment on your post?
- Beth Kanter
Sorry Beth, its not a feature we have enabled yet. We did some talking to nonprofits and foundations who might have a website but may be very new to social media and blogs and found that they are more used to articles and somehow the comments took them out of their comfort zone. Since we are aiming at a lot of the organizations who have little online technology experience, we are starting slow with features on the site.
- Rachel Lea Fox
@Rachel -- interesting reason for not having comments on the site. Makes me wonder if there is a way to get both via design -- sort of how newspapers separate out the comments so that they don't feel a part of the article in the same way that blog post comments do...
- Marnie Webb
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - http://wordle.net/
AJ Batac, Beth Dunn, Brett Morgan and 3 other people liked this
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
http://flipside.scribkin.com/post... - my wordle
- Phil G
Cool. I couldn't get it to work in Firefox 3 (Mac), but it works in Safari. Here's what Wordle says about the words I use on my blog, TinyScreenfuls.com: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Josh Bancroft
Complaints in the comments .. what do you think? - http://www.davidleeking.com/2008...
Beth Dunn liked this
I agree - better to have those complaints aired where you can hear them and respond to them. Not allowing them on your site doesn't mean they suddenly don't exist. It may even give rise to more, as people come to expect a place to vent in your presence.
- Beth Dunn
FriendFeed just added the ability to directly import feeds into rooms... should we do that here in nptech? - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
Eric Johnson, Beth Dunn, Roger Carr and 2 other people liked this
I'm curious which feeds might be most useful to folks and how you feel about the noise-too-signal ratio...
- Jonathon D. Colman
Have mixed emotions but would fit my attempt to more lifestream here- Perhaps experiment with a very small number of feeds first
- Reed Stockman
I agree that it could be useful to test out - though it might be a step in the right direction to filter feeds instead of just a straight feed from somewhere so we can attempt to lessen the noise and get more signal.
- Amy Sample Ward
Any suggestions for a good feed that we might try as a test import? I'm thinking of something largely nptech focused from a neutral (yet informative) party but I admit that I'm having trouble coming up with something good: NTEN or NetSquared blogs? The nptech meta feed? Something else?
- Jonathon D. Colman
I use of feed of new del.icio.us posting tagged with nptech - http://feeds.delicious.com/rss... would that be suitable?
- Tony Molloy
from twhirl
I think NTEN blog would be the most consistently relevant import.Another good feed might be the popular del.icio.us nptech posts -- http://del.icio.us/popular... -- and would fit with the value of the room.
- Marnie Webb
I have to say: the value I get from this room is the way in which a small group of people took the trouble to share an item. I value it because nothing happens in it automatically. But that's just me. Because I've already subscribed to most of these feeds -- it would start to be duplicative in the bad rather than good way.
- Marnie Webb
I agree with Marnie. I don't need an nptech firehose. If that happens I'll probably leave the room.
- Kevin D. White
I like the cafe feel in here too ... if I want feeds I can go to my reader or look at my friends individual feeds
- Beth Kanter
My vote is to leave feeds out. Value of FF rooms has been the sharing /conversation of individual items and topics. In this room I would only like to read about those things believed important by a member (not automatically posted via feed).
- Roger Carr
from twhirl
I agree with Beth - this room has a real human voice, and I think feeds would harm that.
- Beth Dunn
Core77 - Good For Nothing? Why Nonprofits, Designers, and Techies Can't Talk to Each Other - http://www.core77.com/reactor...
Beth Kanter, Beth Dunn and Jonathon D. Colman liked this
MacRumors Live is my favorite site to watch Apple announcements - http://www.macrumorslive.com
Dan Sleezer, Sean Alexander, Louis Gray and 10 other people liked this
the auto-updating is very cool - all text and no pictures means I don't have to scroll
- acedanger
this is good. watching.
- Beth Dunn
I agree, it has consistently had the fastest coverage for WWDC (present and past), and the auto-updating feature is great.
- Brandon Wood
I agree. macrumorslive is the only site I have up.
- Niall Connellan
from Alert Thingy
How do you know if your web content is "strategic"? That is, how do you know if your work online truly moves your .org forward?
Eric Johnson, Jeff Stern, Beth Dunn and 2 other people liked this
@jcolman deep question .. need different channel to discuss? Maybe not http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Beth Kanter
http://snipurl.com/2d61j helps to think about that.
- Marnie Webb
Thanks for sharing, Marnie... reaching out to Drew now! :)
- Jonathon D. Colman
Jcoleman get him in here ..:-)
- Beth Kanter
Jcoleman -- Jon Stahl really deserves the credit.
- Marnie Webb
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