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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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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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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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Should You Ever Delete Donor Records?

Tech Soup

I was recently contacted by the vendor behind a new cloud-based donor management system with this question: "We have noticed that our clients have become much more conscious about archiving/deleting old donor/prospect records because our pricing model is based on the number of records. no contact or gifts in the last 7 years)."

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How You Can Participate in United We Serve This Summer

Have Fun - Do Good

Find a volunteer opportunity on Serve.gov using the search engine powered by All For Good. Contact the Corporation for National and Community Service about how to get engaged by emailing serviceinitiative@cns.gov. They have toolkits available , and will be building more, to help you create your project.

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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

" The article refers to the Dunbar number - 150 - the ceiling on the number of personal contacts a human has the capacity to maintain. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. Last word from Prof.

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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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