5 Key Questions When Selecting a Social Media Firm | StarTribune.com - 0 views
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Kurt on 17 Mar 10Attempts to separate "guy with Twitter account" from social media consultants
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Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling - Mashable - 0 views
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There are lots of things you can do on Twitter besides tweet - and interactive storytelling just became one of them. Neil Gaiman, famed author and creator of The Sandman comic series, and BBC Audiobooks America have gotten together to produce an interest
Facebook hits 300 million users. What's next for social networking? - washingtonpost.com - 0 views
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Now that everybody and his mother is on the site, is it time to look for the next big thing in social networking?
MediaPost Publications CIA Gains Technology To Monitor Social Media Buzz - Online Medi... - 0 views
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United States intelligence agencies will have a tool to read blog posts, Twitter tweets and chatter across the Internet. In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment arm of the U.S. government, has infused cash into Visible Technologies with plans to ma
The Why Behind the Disconnect -- Supporters Embrace Orgs Online, but Don't Give There| ... - 0 views
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A new research report just released by cause branding pros at Cone shows that 79% of those online are behind orgs harnessing email, Web sites and social media to build awareness, grow giving and motivate action. Better yet, 60% of this group has engaged w
louisgray.com: Can Twitter Replace RSS for Sharing the Best of the Web? - 0 views
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On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow in imp
Web 2.0 Summit: Evan Williams Wants To Kill The Suggested User List - 0 views
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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams took the stage for a discussion with Federated Media's John Battelle. It was a lengthy discussion covering a lot of interesting topics. If you're interested in Twitter
Data Portability for Good | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - 0 views
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For four weeks this summer, we got a crash course in data transparency. Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest, sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating
Secretary Clinton Announces Civil Society 2.0 Initiative to Build Capacity of Grassroot... - 0 views
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In her remarks today to the Forum for the Future, Secretary Clinton announced Civil Society 2.0, which will help grassroots organizations around the world use digital technology to tell their stories, build their memberships and support bases, and connect
"Ask U.S.": Engaging on Sudan Strategy | U.S. Department of State Blog - 0 views
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On October 19, Secretary Clinton, accompanied by Ambassador Rice and myself, released the Obama Administration's new comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan. As mentioned in my past blog post, the strategy focuses on t
5 Ways to find, mix and mash your data :: 10,000 Words - 0 views
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One of the most popular trends in online journalism is taking publicly available data and translating it into visualizations or infographics that readers and viewers can quickly and easily understand. A large percentage of the visualizations you see on th
These crusaders bring transparency to government - Latimes.com - 0 views
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Government pooh-bahs live by the credo Information is Power. Here are a few of the guerrillas working to overthrow the resulting dictatorship.
More on obesity, geography, and class - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Gary Chapman, of the University of Texas, has created this way of envisioning the relationship between income and obesity. Concept: the shading varies with the obesity rate divided by median household income. This is a not-immediately-obvious way to prese
Twitter, Facebook help Philippines flood survivors flee | csmonitor.com - 0 views
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The estimated number of people displaced in the Philippines by a devastating storm on Saturday has doubled, to more than 435,000, according to government officials. Officials are calling tropical storm Ketsana, which dumped a month's worth of rain in six
Tweeting Ugandan gorillas make friends online | Oddly Enough | Reuters - 0 views
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BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST, Uganda (Reuters) - Lurking deep in the mist-glazed forests of east Africa, Uganda's mountain gorillas are preparing to 'tweet' for their survival. With the launch on Saturday of the "Friend a Gorilla" campaign, human fans will
The Ingenuity of the American People - White House OMB Blog - 0 views
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Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest. Datamasher.org provides the public with a simple interface to mash up government datasets to analyze and visual
Social Networking Entrepreneur Taking It To The 'Next Level' - Venture Capital Dispatch... - 0 views
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Steve Ressler, a former IT auditor with the Department of Homeland Security, spent a lot of time studying the world's terrorist networks. He later developed a keen interest in different kinds of networks, and founded Young Government Leaders, Washington,
DataMasher: Create MashUps & Visualize US Government Data Sets - Makeuseof.com - 0 views
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DataMasher is an interesting website which lets citizens visualize and play with the data sets released by US government everyday. The data, which is usually sourced from data.gov, contains stats like poverty rates, unemployment rates, obesity in the US a
So you want a Facebook Fan Page for Your Nonprofit? Here's the Scoop! - Beth's Blog: Ho... - 0 views
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NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam Conner from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages.
The Speed Of Share - Tech Crunch - 0 views
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Facebook has a problem. One of its main goals now is to be the center for sharing everything on the web, but the key to that is to make the process as quick and easy as possible. And in that regard, its rival Twitter destroys it. That's a problem. Now, F