Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Lee and Satchi do it again! Social Networking in Plain English!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is an excellent basic introduction and gives a great illustration about how social networking can be personal learning tool -- getting answers from your network. I love the plain English series that Lee LeFever does. Here's the latest installment.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. She also publishes the Top Learning Tools Index , a crowdsourced list of the best technologies for networked learning.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is your organization leveraging this content asset further by using it as a continuous learning tool or marrying it to better understand your quantitative data? Is your organization collecting stories or anecdotal data in a disciplined way that helps you with your content strategy? Do numbers only matter?

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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

One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool. Think of Professional Learning As A Gift To Yourself. It does require that someone inside of the organization can help with one-on-one coaching, answer questions, provide support, and do this without loosing their enthusiasm. Three Tips for Getting Started.

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H2O Playlists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

H20 playlists is one tool in the project. Here's some of the functionality: transform traditional syllabi into interactive, global learning tools. H2O Playlist is a series of links to books, articles, and other materials that collectively explore an idea or set the stage for a course, discussion, or current event.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the learning tools I created for the workshop was an information overload self-assessment, a simple quiz with yes/no questions that let folks diagnose the degree of information overload they were feeling. My outline is here.

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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

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. in your RSS reader and to add the del.icio.us application in your Facebook account. Johannes). Want to know buzz?

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