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I hope Gavin puts his witty comments on Social Search into a blog post at his digital dinner.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

, I decided to do an action learning experiment on these questions: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads than traditional techniques? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Is it worth it to integrate social search into practice?

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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. I am also eager to test out some of the tools and ideas I learned about social search during the Yi-Tan call. I was most curious about ChaCha - a search engine that lets you search with human help.

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful?

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. " The article refers to the Dunbar number - 150 - the ceiling on the number of personal contacts a human has the capacity to maintain. The article says that new research suggests that social networking sites will help humans surpass this limit.

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A. Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition | Main | Make New Friends, But Keep the Old » Wednesday Jul 11 2007 A. They can then go online and create a wiki to share documents and lists together, they can also create a listserve and a blog to keep everyone informed of progress and discuss strategy.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

I'm a big advocate of the profile part, and want to see it used in other ways for members to contact each other. If I'm developing an exhibition, I may start at ExhibitFiles and then contact the person directly. The other thing we found early on is that the profiles pop up very high on a google search for a person's name.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 4: Customer Support

Museum 2.0

Human contact is hard to come by, and while websites and phone systems provide the basics, there are many visitors with complex questions—often more interesting questions—who are turned away by the frustrating inability to reach a real person. Product-related and tech support forums are incredibly specific.

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