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Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. If you want more power, check out the Google URL Builder: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en. If you’re tracking website analytics with Google Analytics, you can easily use it to see the traffic to each different URL.

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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. Oh no, your query is analyzed and sent to a knowledgable ChaCha Guide who is trained to search and already knows a lot about the very thing you???re The work in progress is here. re not searching alone.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. But many nonprofits are using Ning for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and learning.

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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the first of a series co-sponsored by NTEN and Salesforce.com Foundation , I covered the integration of Google Adwords with salesforce.com. I started my research on a listserv of practitioners for SalesForce Nonprofit version asking for case studies and examples. Add Beth's Blog: Screencasts to your page.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 You can create an RSS feed that would work 24/7 and bring any news to your desktop from Google News or Yahoo News. The power of Web2.0

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

The artifacts are reaccessioned, the labels (hopefully) recycled, but what happens to the knowledge? NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? The other thing we found early on is that the profiles pop up very high on a google search for a person's name. That's all very deliberate.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. This ability to organize content segments, like moving post-its around on a table, makes wikis more useful than other collaborative document creation tools like Google Docs.

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