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                 <td class="blk2" colspan="2">5/7/2001</td></tr>
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                 <td class="blk3" colspan="2"><b>Lesson of the dot-coms for the dot-orgs: get big fast</b>
                  <br />Surdna has released <a href="http://www.surdna.org/documents/morefinal.pdf">a report</a> (pdf only) by Andrew Blau on how network effects on the Internet require non-profits and funders to move quickly and think big if they aspire to be a player in a winner-take-all environment.  And they must have the stomach for a few large scale failures.       (<a href="/about/news/3657638">more</a>)      </td></tr></table></p>
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                 <td class="blk2" colspan="2">4/12/2001</td></tr>
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                 <td class="blk3" colspan="2"><b>DigitalPromise.org: funding the public interest on the 'Net</b>
                  <br />A broad group of leaders urged the creation of an ambitious &quot;digtial gift&quot; to the nation through an initiative called <a href="http://www.digitalpromise.org">DigitalPromise.org</a>.       (<a href="/about/news/3657277">more</a>)      </td></tr></table></p>
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                 <td class="blk2" colspan="2">4/5/2001</td></tr>
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                 <td class="blk3" colspan="2"><b>MIT to offer free access to course materials online</b>
                  <br />The Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Charles M. Vest <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2001/ocw.html">announced today</a> that MIT will offer the material for nearly all of courses freely over the Internet in a program called &quot;OpenCourseWare&quot;.  A noteworthy and notable event in the online non-profit space, and a boon for openness and democractic values.       (<a href="/about/news/3766118">more</a>)      </td></tr></table></p>
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                 <td class="blk2" colspan="2">3/16/2001</td></tr>
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                 <td class="blk3" colspan="2"><b>Deborah Wadsworth joins advisory board  </b>
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                  <a href="http://www.publicagenda.org">Public Agenda</a> President Deborah Wadsworth has agreed to join our Board of Advisors.        (<a href="/about/news/2804909">more</a>)      </td></tr></table></p>
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                 <td class="blk2" colspan="2">3/9/2001</td></tr>
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                 <td class="blk3" colspan="2"><b>Seeking candidates for two public service internships</b>
                  <br /> We require smart, ambitious volunteers to contribute love, sweat and tears to our civic cause. Please read this article if you would like to help <b>Bring the government closer to the People</b> or become a <b>Builder of Online Townhalls</b>.         (<a href="/about/news/2708939">more</a>)      </td></tr></table></p></td></tr></table></td></tr>
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