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My New Year’s Resolution: Balancing Solitude and Connectedness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His definition of the problem is that it gets in the way of sustained mindfulness in order to get something meaningful done. What is the solution? Curation: These are curated sources by communities and networks of people. Aggregation: These tools aggregate sources/content on a central site. Technology Approaches.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly fueled by consumers' desires for faster, lighter, and often cheaper (if not free) technologies. Here are some tips to keep in mind: . New applications and technologies are being developed at a rapid pace.

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Three Ways Nonprofits Can Rein in Social Data

Tech Soup

What do you get when you combine your donor performance data with social engagement data? Identify the social influencers within your donor base who can spread your message to their like-minded friends on social networks. Powerhouse donors! Still don't know where to start?

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

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This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. keep in mind: . using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. New applications and technologies.

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If your organization tweets it, will they donate?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This would have to be done with some social networking analysis software that maps twitter accounts to donors and displays results. The closest thing I've seen is a little utility called Twitinfluence - it measures an individual users Twitter network based on the following: First and Second Order Networks. Does it exist?

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. still thinking outloud. Is that a formalized taxonomy or not?

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