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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out? Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes.

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Great reads from around the web on July 19th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Great slides. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. What do you think?

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. The campaign.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. What role does social media play in it? Process-driven learning is about seeing patterns and the identification of these patterns may or may not lead to a learning product. What is your system for professional learning?

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Social Media Marketing White Paper: Key Findings and Nonprofit Lessons

NTEN

Social media is an area the nonprofit sector has been, in many ways, leading the way! . Let's explore: First, some context: The survey was conducted in January of this year, and marketers on social networks -- it was kicked off with a Twitter invitation to the survey -- participated. A total of 880 marketers took the survey.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Update your bookmarks: [link]. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) It's moved. Do you find Web2.0

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Giving Good Poke.

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