These are some links I wanted to share from June 8th. Find me on Delicious for more!

• How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live – TIME – There's a great article in Time about Twitter, and what the community of Twitter users has done to make the tool more than first meets the eye. "In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it's doing to us. It's what we're doing to it."
• A conceptual model of value for social media | Juice Digital – Check ou thte "4 Cs" model developed by Gaurav Mishra: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence, as an example of the progression of what kind of value you can create online for your organization and the larger community.
• The Buzz Bin » Livingston Communications – Check out this great list of 200 social change blogs! If you're looking to find a new blog to add to your reading list, there are more than enough here to find one new to you!
• Twitter’s Ten Rules For Radical Innovators – Umair Haque – HarvardBusiness.org – Check out this great list of 10 Rules for Radical Innovators based on the changes Twitter has helped affect on the way we communicate and innovate. My favorite: Ideals beat strategies. Finally, we've learned that making money is not the only value we can create.
• HopePhones.org | Old phones save lives. Donate yours to a medical clinic in a developing country today – "HopePhones, a new campaign, launched today that enables anyone to provide health services to those in the developing world – by donating your old cell phones! The HopePhones campaign is a project of a nonprofit organization, FrontlineSMS:Medic that uses mobile technology to empower rural healthcare networks in the developing world. FrontlineSMS:Medic is also an N2Y4 Featured Project!" – Joe Solomon
• Using PeopleBrowsr for NetSquared | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Jean Russell has a terrific post about using a tool called PeopleBrowsr to monitor all the conversations and content emerging from the N2Y4 Conference. "Enrich your experience of the N2Y4 conference by getting the information you want from the social media streams. Try using Peoplebrowsr.com in the following 5 ways, and then adjust to fit your taste and needs."

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These are some links I wanted to share from May 20th. Find me on Delicious for more!

• Join us in a UK hyperlocal alliance… « Talk About Local (alpha) – Will Perrin is on a mission to engage and convene localities via the web. "After running successful community websites in London's challenging Kings Cross I wanted to help other communities achieve the same sense of empowerment and communication. So i quit my job and set up Talk About Local to bring locally created and locally owned websites to communities across the country."
• Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics – Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one!
• #charitytuesday is your charity taking part on Tuesdays? – Are you on Twitter? Have you seen hashtags (#) being used and curious what they mean – maybe for #FollowFriday for example. Well, #CharityTuesday was started as a way of creating visibility for orgs using Twitter, get them talking to each other instead of just broadcasting information, and more. Learn more here.
• The Current Nonprofit Landscape: "We are all in this together" – Are you a nonprofit or foundation in Portland/Oregon? "It is not much of an exaggeration to observe that the downturn in the economy presents unprecedented challenges in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. This is an uncharted landscape for us all. There have been efforts across the field to gather data about the impact and outlook for nonprofits and funders alike. This joint program is developed to help ensure we are working from the same assumptions and telling the same story. The goal is for funders and nonprofits to explore strategies and share solutions for the future. This program is a chance for us to gather as a community, learn from one another and move forward together."
• DemocracyInAction Green Grants – DemocracyInAction Green Empowers grants provide organizations with the Salsa platform for free. Apply by filling out the application on their site. If you looking for a tool for free, could be worth checking out.

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