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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

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His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. There 2-3 spam incidents a week. The type of spam that is happening now is posting and deleting to stay on the front page. The type of spam that is happening now is posting and deleting to stay on the front page. t spam happen a lot more?

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Got Your Ears On? How to Listen to Your Audience Using Social Media

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Set up a few blog searches - you can search sites like Google Blogsearch , Technorati , Bloglines and BlogCatalog. Facebook doesn't automatically spam your email contacts. New keywords include timely industry issues. Provide timely information? You can set the frequency of the alerts. Start with your organization's name.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I spend a lot of time listening on the social web using a radar that I've put together with a combination of free tools and the Stradivarius Violin of listening tools, Radian 6. It is sort of like Technorati for Twitter. His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool.

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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a challenging and exciting at the same time." CRAM = Connect, Reward, Action, Memorable - mentions Technorati as a tool to find your potential audience who have interest in your cause or programs. Need time and patience. welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. Technorati Tags: nptagadvocates I_Like_To_Watch Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. What is your interest in viral video and why did you start that feed?

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A Conversation with Michael Gilbert on Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I guess I thought it was time, but people looked at me strangely, so I stopped asking. Q: You have an impressive record of regularly postings, was there ever a time when you stopped posting (outside of vacation)? I think we all deal with that from time to time. That does represent an important change.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). Many museums are protective about how frequently they send messages to members and other lists, fearing that they will be ignored or perceived as spam. Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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