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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

I had the pleasure of dirnking a beer and learning from Joe Mornin a couple of nights ago. He's a brilliant digital native helping organizations create social change through online organizing. Upon meeting him I thought of another community organizer working in Chicago during the 1980s. I guarantee that we'll be hearing more from him as time goes on. - Jonathon D. Colman

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

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

Agree with time estimates? - Beth Kanter via Bookmarklet

I think some of them are a little on the high side in the sense that, once you get rolling with a strategy and a routine, and are familiar with the tools you are using, some weeks you may spend significantly less time. Also, orgs should understand that they might have one person "listening and participating" and a different person building online community. - Laura Norvig

Laura - good point -- yes there is more time when you immerse, less when routine - and less when you split the load. - Beth Kanter

Let's you register votes via facebook apps - Beth Kanter via Bookmarklet

This article looks packed with SEO and absolutely no nonprofit information. But looking at the article from a nonprofit point of view. If every nonprofit worker has mentioned the 'wearing' of different 'hats,' then why should your website only wear one hat? Consider micro-sites in the design of your web site - that is - a blog, youth issues, donor central, action central, and a press room, for example. - Suzannah

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

Paul Webster shares how Social Media was used and experienced at a recent conference for infrastructure organisations here in the UK. - Laura Whitehead via Bookmarklet

Want to know how The Nature Conservancy raised over $74,000 on Facebook, making us the third-highest performing nonprofit using Causes while using almost no staff time? Here's a short slideshow that contains all the strategy, tactics and data that you need to get started now. - Jonathon D. Colman

60% of Americans interact with companies on a social media website and 93% (!) believe a company should have a presence in social media. - Jonathon D. Colman

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

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

On September 18th 2008, Mashable’s Twitter followers donated $3536 to Charity:Water, an initiative to build wells in Ethiopia. On the same day, our Twitter friend Paul Young raised a further $637 through his Twitter and Facebook accounts. And Twitter user Sarah Townsend hauled in $400 - that’s more than $4500, almost exclusively from Twitter, in a single day. With $4000 buying an entire well to supply water to 200 people for 20 years, we can truly call this the “well that Twitter built”. - Jonathon D. Colman

interesting discussion in the comment thread .. http://tinyurl.com/3umshd - Beth Kanter

Paul wrote a good reflection on what he did http://www.flickr.com/photos/c... - Beth Kanter

what do you think? - Beth Kanter

I'm looking at results for the campaigns we ran last year and seeing CPLs ranging everywhere from $7 to $413 depending on the campaign. What do you folks see in their results in terms of cost per lead? - Jonathon D. Colman