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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Research Friday: A Case for Content Curation

ASU Lodestar Center

The Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Times , Social Innovation Review , and Nonprofit Quarterly are a few industry specific publications that are considered "go to" sources of knowledge. The ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit News (LCNN) is a free source of information sent to your inbox bi-monthly, and it's stuffed with knowledge and tools.

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I''ve had a hazy sense that the social web is transitioning from a text-based to visual medium. Most of the professional networks I belong to online operate using the most antiquated of text-based tools: the listserv.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. The concept of digital curators has been around since the beginning of the Web - at first they were called "Cybrians." I think I'm a digital curator.

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. The work in progress is here.

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. This is the type of experiential knowledge that is so valuable.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

on using the web to highlight important information in situations where. writing on the web regularly to communicate with their audience. trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector. information overload may be a problem. It goes much.

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