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Thoughts on Chatter while the Kool-Aid flows at Dreamforce

Judi Sohn

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. In fact, the app includes "Chattalytics" which shows the top 50 influencers out of 15,000 or so folks in the Dreamforce app. I left status updates. I got the mobile app.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively). It can also influence traffic. Are there patterns?

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Getting More out of Online & Offline Events

Forum One

We've been helping groups for many years with ways to have a little more influence and get a little more impact out of their online and offline events. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going.

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Are you a digital curator, packrat, editor, or snacker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Snacker: As conversations and resources become more distributed -- some on social networks, some in tag streams, some on listservs, or blogs -- and the rise of micro media - some people just snack on information -bouncing or multi-tasking from one bit to another. Perhaps editors are those who also still work in print form too?

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

I had a fascinating conversation recently with a program officer about running an online community for African educators making use of good old-fashioned Listserv technology. Tags: Influence Collaboration. Designing and building a collaboration community is a rich and multi-layered experience. Oh, and let us know what you're learning!

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. That marvelous patch work quilt of different and connected s in the blogosphere that influences your thinking, your writing, and sometimes your practice.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How might it influence your choice of using Second Life for a project? I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. This is interesting to me because Second Life is quite the opposite - there is a huge investment in learning the tools, there is no audio (although that is changing) and it is all visual.