Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Where Should You Invest Your Time: Google+, Search, or Email?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As you can see from the graph above, Pew found: Email and search form the core of online communication and online information gathering, respectively. It is also useful to do a little audience research or consult secondary studies. The Pew recently did this study on online habits.

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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. One trick you can do is search by combination of tags by adding the "+" between tags.

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Yi-Tan Call on Monday: Social Search

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week on the NpTech Tag call, the idea of social search was referenced. Search engines keep improving, sometimes imperceptibly, but my money's on social search. Nancy White just sent me this note about a conference call on Monday about the topic. Here's the deal: If we can't sort the wheat from the. chaff, the chaff wins.

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Doing Good While Searching

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GoodSearch is an Internet search engine with a simple concept and unique social mission. GoodSearch enables you to help fund any of hundreds of thousands of charities or schools through the simple act of searching the Internet. What the heck, will go search and click for the Sharing Foundation.

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Search Engine Optimization Gurus: I need your help!

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When you do a google search on this person's name, my blog posts come up first and lower hers! In any case, fast forward to now - when anyone searches my name on google, the fact that I gave via your charity badge comes up many many times over. Remember that fundraising campaign I did for Leng Sopharath ? see below).

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Two Cool Tools to Search Flickr for CC License

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Searching through flickr to find photos that are interesting and by creative commons using the flickr search is sort of a pain. Search on Flickr with some Magic Another way to search flickr for creative commons images. Search on Flickr with some Magic Another way to search flickr for creative commons images.

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My blog is the top organic search result for the keyword "beth"

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you type in the word "Beth," my blog comes up as the first organic search engine results (unpaid search results). Based on an analysis of 6 months of google analytics data).

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