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What is the scaffolding for learning in public?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign. Flickr Photo by Gary Hayes. Some are tool specific The Twitter Ladder or the Facebook Ladder or it may describes different levels of engagement across channels.

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Guest Post by Laura Norvig: Friendfeed As Nonprofit Technology Water Cooler

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. for the last five years or so). for the last five years or so). If yes, how is it going? If not, why not?

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. An easy example is green technology. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Note from Beth: This guest post is part 2 of coverage of SoCap 09. .

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. “The consumer Internet,” the author wrote, “can be seen as the warm-up act for these technologies.” Note from Beth: I hosted a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who attended the GeoFunders National Conference that took place last week in Seattle.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. My job was the network weaver.

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If I could do the NpTech Tag Over Again.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It started right when these sites had just started, and it arose from the need to develop a nonprofit technology taxonomy. It was a big surprise that this started being used by a large group of people, and also that tags started being used for just about everything (photos, blog posts, etc.).

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

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Flickr Photo: Peat Bakke Sharing and lessons learned is what the NTEN Affinity Group Discuss list is all about. All of the problems with any sort of document management solution (or knowledge management solution) are human, not technological (or even eschatological). This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc.