Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organized crime, Mr. Carlin, says is selling our information and making some very serious money. What if the government created a third-party widget that asked people a range of personal questions that they then data-mined and used to find criminals or criminal behavior? And for good reason. What pages did you visit?

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Pew Internet Report on Tagging Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm summarizing the parts I found interesting: The give us some numbers of tagging, although since it is the first time they have asked about tagging there is not data to determine whether tagging is increasing or not. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. but maybe to me it's ???ghost

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. Adding a new data point to it. How will you apply the information?

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Privacy and Security on Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both guides are written for citizens in the Middle East and North Africa who want to use technology safely to communicate, organize, and share data, but the tips and recommendations are useful for anyone working for a nonprofit who needs to mindful about privacy. Who controls and owns the information I put into a social networking site?

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. I just noticed on the NTEN site a great post about a pointer to survey that is collecting information about web site benchmarks (slightly broader than metrics).

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Data is not like Martha Stewart - it is far from perfect. Visiting a web site is radically different if you look at from view of Web data collection.

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