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JUNE 14, 2011

But we know the media landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade and now we’re faced with so many choices and too much information as Steve Rubel points out in this presentation. Is the marketing funnel the right metaphor in age of information overload and a cluttered media landscape?

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MARCH 31, 2015

He created an informal employee champion program. He launched the informal employee champions program with a fellow interning at his agency. Turn ‘em loose. Monitor daily and cheer them on! Did this take a lot of arm twisting and bribery? Gerard says he no. As Gerard says, “Buy-in begets buy-in.”

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

The session combines information coping with blog communty outreach. Blogging Basics: Managing Information Overload: How to find your blogging community Join Beth Kanter, who has been writing about what she prefers to call "online information coping skills" since the 1990s, when we mostly had to worry about email.

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AUGUST 31, 2008

Andy Carvin launched the Gustav Information Center on Ning, and through social networks, word is spreading fast - the hash tag #gustav is being used. Photo by Corburn. Home Depot already using the tag to update on stories in the Hurricane???s hat tip Tom Watson ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

I keep on wanting to update my really " Information Coping Skills " workshop curriculum from almost ten years ago. His recent post " Eight Steps to Thriving on Information Overload " caught my eye. Information Overload - Problem or Opportunity? Set information objectives. Be open to useful information.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

What's your routine for sharing information on Twitter? (See this review from Mashable ). It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. I figure why hoard the good stuff I find? What tool do you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999. I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!" I also want to point you to Vicky Davis's piece on avoiding information overload with RSS There is excellent advice for newcomers to RSS.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Jakob Nielsen's Alert Box has a column today called " Life-Long Computer Skills " I have been on a soapbox about information coping skills for almost ten years now. People can take simple steps to fight information overload , but as information snowballs, we'll need more sophisticated strategies.

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OCTOBER 9, 2008

Yesterday, in preparation for a session I'm doing at BlogHer Boston , I created a quiz for folks to self-assess how much information overload was a factor. Jack Vinson , who scored an admirable 5, noted it isn't about the too much information, it's more about behavior. The important information will rise to the top.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

I facilitated a session in the afternoon called Managing Information Overload: Finding Your Blog Community." Including the key point about avoiding information overload with your email - use the delete key, make it like eating chocolate! Market research - hearing customers talk about your brand informally.

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MAY 26, 2008

I was lucky enough to attend a breakout session called "The Fritz and Sauce Method For Dealing With Information Overload" conducted by Stuart Jones from the Old Milang School House Project. Stuart gave a great presentation on how to avoid that awful overwhelmed feeling we feel from dealing with digital information.

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MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. I can't do that anymore which is a normal part of aging or a by-product of consuming too much information called Internet Alzheimers. There's not even a description of what the blogs do.

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OCTOBER 12, 2006

If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. Last night, I dropped into the lecture/presentation by Jeff Barr, Amazon Technology Evangelist, in the open-air auditorium on Information Island.

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JUNE 14, 2008

are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years. The article describes a new nonprofit organization called " Information Overload Research Group." t live at the. post office #3: Delete or save and.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2004

AlertBox had a piece called Information Pollution. The summary: Excessive word count and worthless details are making it harder for people to extract useful information. The title is taken from a chapter about antidotes to information in David Shenk's book Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glue - Give a Hoot, Don't Data Pollute.

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MARCH 11, 2007

No answers: So, if too much information is noise, what is too much meaning? That's what information is like. That's a question raised by David Weinberger in a recent newsletter article. Add enough marbles to your marbles bag, and before too long you can't find your favorites.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Amy Gahran has some excellent self-reflections and advice about the way she reads feeds in her RSS reader. In short, ditch the guilt, embrace the serendipity! Like Amy, I've lost count of how many feeds are in my reader(s) - at least 400-500. I don't feel pressured to read everything, I'm a big scanner.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2008

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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JANUARY 28, 2004

Zzstructure "is a way of representing the structure of information. A cell is the basic unit of information of a Zzstructure structure. Cells containing related information can be connected with each other along dimensions, the number of which is unlimited. Every piece of information stored in a digital device using based on Zz!

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Encourage staff to look for “points of pain” where busy work, known as the “digital debt” – processing endless emails, managing back-to-back meetings zaps people’s energy or reformatting information and robs time away from strategic thinking. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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MAY 26, 2005

David Weinberger wrote posted this interesting twist about information overload : The power of tags shows that the way to manage information overload is more information. Information Anxiety! Information Tidal Wave! ??? time to really re-think, update my information coping skills curriculum to include how to tag.

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DECEMBER 6, 2005

So here's his " Bringing relevant information to your electronic desktop." The goal he writes is: "to help them become familiar, and hopefully, proficient with this as users first." " He talks about the difficulty in removing the "geekiness." " I think he succeeded. " Here's the PDF of the slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

An informal online discussion about the NPTECH tag over at Cpsquared. If you've participated in using the tag and share some of your reflections of where it's been, where it is going, and other insights about community tagging projects, come join us. To translate into your time zone, use the World Time Clock.

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JUNE 3, 2006

The NP Tagvocates N-TEN Affinity Group is trying to spread tagging in the nonprofit sector. Click here and scroll down to NP Tagovates). If anything else comes out of this experiment, it is a great way to find out about nonprofit bloggers and taggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

This article by Robin Good showed up as new in my aggregator, although it was written in September, 2005. I'm glad because I didn't see in September and it may be useful to include as a reference for the NTC Conference Blogging Panel. Good points to a master's thesis on the Social Phenomenon of Blogs by James Torio. the BBC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

I put myself on a news diet by only consuming one-hour of news a day to be informed enough to keep my family safe. It is also important to practice information hygiene and consume news from trusted sources, especially medical information. You simply can’t obsess about every news report or the worst possible outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2018

We are in a constitutional crisis/slo-mo coup (in part thanks to Facebook and Cambridge Analytica), and in responding it we will need to share information. Shutting down that capacity now would reduce my range and access to information and allies, and I doubt it would harm Facebook. I might add that all this data was to manipulate us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

The volume and urgency of incoming messages made it impossible for the staff to reply manually with requested information efficiently. Even though the answers are available on the organization’s web site and Facebook page, they discovered engagement and conversation got people to the information faster.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Visit #MyGivingStory to get more information and to enter. You can find additional information tailored to organizations in our toolkit. Every act of giving has a story. What’s yours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. We can no longer afford to get distracted by the volume of information flying past us. Instead, content curation helps us keep focused. Is it accurate?

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JULY 22, 2014

After some results from routine tests during my annual physical, my doctor informed me that my cholesterol was high. ”Start exercising more and stop eating bacon cheese burgers ” were the doctor’s orders and we’ll retest in 6 months. Would you be willing to share your personal health information with researchers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

After I attended Catalyzing the Sharing Economy conference (the sharing economy is defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services), I shared a post with some notes and ideas about why I think it is the next generation of networked social change. Alternative Currency Donations.

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APRIL 2, 2014

This creates an organization of zombies doomed to repeating the mistakes of the past. The term is a play on “ organizational memory ” which is defined as is the accumulated body of data, information, and informal learning created in the course of an organization’s existence or known as “Knowledge Management.”

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AUGUST 30, 2013

Identification of these factors marked the beginning of our journey to discover how to consistently capture and leverage knowledge, information, innovation, and data…of our constituents, our partners and our staff. Explain why it will be important or informative for their work. Define your Call to Action. Design Protocol.

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JULY 25, 2013

Prior to founding Cloud for Good , I worked for a nonprofit organization that loved to collect information. It was a great tool to analyze quantitative information but it did not enable me to manage relationships between the information I tracked; Excel is “flat”. They could not access the information when they needed it most.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Stay tuned for more information about additional book events in March, April, May, and June. Please contact me if you are interested in hosting a book event or having us speak at your event. And if you’d like to buy a copy yourself, well, I would be grateful for that, too!

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