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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

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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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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s the same sort of discomfort that some people feel about approaching the task of listening for learning using the social web. Doesn’t listening require plowing through mountains and mountains of unstructured information? One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool. Photo by Salon De Maria.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Use tools like Technorati, Bloglines, and Forum Tracker to monitor what people are. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. application in your Facebook account. Johannes). Want to know buzz?

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. RSS reading patterns are changing. The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits!

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool. I also need to clean up my RSS mess and perhaps contemplate.

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