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Together, we're compiling all you need to go from zero to social media super star. Find resources for nonprofit practitioners just starting out with social media integration. Here you'll find case studies, worksheets, and links to guide the development of your first social media plan. Start here to plan your strategy, navigate culture, build capacity, keep your team learning, and put those tactics into practice.

3DVisA was funded between 2006 and 2008 by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The Network was hosted by King's Visualisation Lab in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. It was an integral part of a wider UK Visualisation Support Network, VizNET, spanning the UK academic research community. This website documents some of 3DVisA activities and provides access to publications and resources created in 2006-2008, some of which continue to be maintained by King's Visualisation Lab. 3DVisA was also the Secretariat of The London Charter for the use of three-dimensional Visualisation in the Research and Communication of Cultural Heritage.

The Frontlines aims to combine the 40,000 organizations that support veterans into one network of veterans, active duty, military families and citizens together to overcome the obstacles vets typically face. The Frontlines is a network for armed forces, veterans and citizens to provide 400,000 filtered resources, education and the ability to share their stories. The site is used also used for mentorship to aid in gainful employment, supporting wounded veterans and success during the transition from the military.

Amplified is a not-for-profit organization that uses social media to enable and encourage community participation around events, conferences and public conversations. The Amplified team facilitates and documents the sharing of ideas, opinions and resources, and aggregates this content online to enable the conversations from all parties to continue and spread.

This new book brings together papers given at a recent major conference jointly organised by the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University (the world's first academic unit to focus solely on social aspects of mobile communication) and Liberty Science Center (the New Jersey-New York City region's largest education resource).

"Welcome to the Teacher Network, where you can browse and use thousands of innovative free resources and create and share your own. Assess your class's progress with our unique Test Centre, and use the network to find the perfect job. The Teacher Network is part of Guardian Professional Networks, our new community sites where we bring together insights, news and best practice. Guardian Professional is a division of Guardian News & Media."

To coincide with the opening of the Dickens and London exhibition, the Museum of London has launched a new iPhone and iPad app which takes users on a journey through the darker side of Charles Dickens' London.

This project investigates the use of Blogs by archives, libraries and historians on both an individual and organisational level.

Last week I had the fun experience of leading a couple of internal training sessions at COSI about Yammer.  As a service to those who were unable to attend and as a resource to those of you who don't work at COSI, I will be blogging through the content we covered in these sessions.  At any point, you may also elect to go rogue and just read the tutorials and help documents at www.yammer.com (which conveniently enough is also where you sign up for Yammer…but that will be covered in my next post).

Sparked by previous discussions, I wonder if anyone is aware of any successful projects/tools that allow users to geotag resources on the web (or to contribute corrections/enhancements to things already tagged)

Free learning resources from museums, libraries and archives

Ein Beispiel für neue Zielgruppen erreichen (s. Konferenzbeitrag Archimuse: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/abstracts/prg_335001837.html Our solution (in progress): - By creating many experiments across the widest range of existing social networking models we are making links with the local community who in turn show what the Gallery and the area is really about through their own images, ...- We always ensure we can back each experiment with adequate resources and talent to ensure a high quality result that does justice to the Gallery we represent.

DeDoose researchers facing real challenges and finding real answers-so take a few minutes and see firsthand how Dedoose can benefit you and your work including: the steps of establishing your account, importing your resources and descriptors, building and perfecting your coding system, excerpting your texts, applying the relevant codes, exploring and interpreting your work, and, last but not least, exporting your final results in a form ready for use in your article or report.

"A recently launched service in Germany called PaperC (Twitter: @Paper_c) looks like it might become a pretty handy resource for students and researchers. It is an online library of commonly used textbooks for studying. You can read all of them online for free, but you can also download PDFs, make notes and bookmarks, and copy and paste quotes. The latter functions cost something, but not much. A PDF of 10 pages costs 1 Euro. The idea is not that it replaces books, as such, but replaces the photocopier. So far they have 2,799 books in their library."

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web British Museum & UCL Study Day - Jan 13th The World Wide Web is an essential part of the Museum's toolkit for publishing information, engaging visitors and communicating across the globe. However, museum web sites and information systems are still largely silos that make it difficult for us to realize the benefits of bringing data together. The growing momentum of the Semantic Web movement means a greater investment in the technology and tools needed to convert its potential into practical opportunities that museums can utilise. Und: "A museum object is more like an illustration, or witness of the past, than information in its own right. Cultural historical research means understanding 'possible pasts', the facts, events, material, social and psychological influences and motivations. It lives from understanding contexts, by pulling together bits and pieces of related facts from disparate resources, which can typically not be classified under subjects in an obvious way. It lives from taking into account all known facts." 

"Organizations that are embarking on social media are going to be at different levels of maturity. That's okay. What's most important is that you recognize where on the spectrum you sit, so you can plan your efforts accordingly, and focus on how to get to the next level. Here are a few models you can consider:" Passive: Responsive: Engaged: Creating:

The Pitt Rivers Museum's 'Tibet Album' site, which brings together 6,000 historic photographs from Tibet, was partially intended as a resource for Tibetans (how do you reach a diaspora population? the Web!) and certainly does function that way--we've had lots of feedback.