Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. A lthough neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Methods for listening to conversations off-blog and outside my media. The Web is changing!

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