You’ve heard a lot about Web 2.0, but these nonprofits are redefining Org 2.0. This list of innovative .orgs has been around for a few months, but I just stumbled across it for the first time. I was amazed by some of the creativity and resourcefulness exhibited by these sites — especially in the use […]

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Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen criticized Web 2.0 as trendy and overhyped in a recent BBC interview, and warned that Web 2.0 sites risked falling into the “glossy but useless” Web design mold of the dotcom era. He says that in the rush to adopt Web 2.0 technologies, Web professionals are “neglecting good design.”
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Are you having difficulty getting folks in your institution to understand the importance of providing RSS feeds? Does your boss stare at you blankly when you talk about subscribing to blogs? Chances are your colleagues have heard of RSS, but have only a vague notion of how it works. This low-tech video is a great […]

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Flickr is everybody’s favorite photo-sharing Web site, home to millions of professional portfolios, wedding albums and baby snapshots. Yet Flickr’s potential as a viral marketing tool–especially for higher education–has not yet been explored by most institutions.
Flickr was one of the earliest distinctly “Web 2.0” sites, and is still a standard-bearer for clean design and tightly-integrated […]

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