Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. The content and tools are nothing without the curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Learn about both community-driven and corporate tech initiatives that help you make a difference in your own communities, and hear about the opportunities and challenges of taking on cutting edge technology tools. Two trends: Technical side increasing openness in API, RSS, etc. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 6, 2005

As I mentioned in my November 3rd post , I am working as a Community Builder with NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup. You can hear last month's speakers, Chris Messina from Flock , CompuMentor's Marnie Webb and yours truly, on the NetSquared Channel on Odeo. I'm double blogging right now, here and on the NetSquared blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. What are the communication tools you could use to achieve that goal? If a blog is one of the tools you think would meet your goal, ask yourself: 4. In general, a blog is a different communication tool than say, a newsletter. What questions and answers would you add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. Some of the topical themes I will work in more depth: Listening: I have focused on the free tools and have some great step-by-steps. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. Photo by RedRaspus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. What metric(s) you select depends on your strategy map, tool selection, and context. Are you really getting off your soap box?

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