Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ? industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). Reading what people recommend. Finding ???Looking

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever.

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. These are human filters " who subscribe to the RSS feeds of a large number of sources, search queries, and other dynamic sources.

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