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My Flickr Score

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It has been a long day of pondering inbetween rapid attention shifting tasks, dipping into email, pinging IMs, and browsing feeds. I had used the commentors flickr photo - "CC BY license" and he stopped to say thanks. And the Flickr Inspector also gives you a meaningless score too. My brain is tired.

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A Few More Tips for Nonprofit Professionals To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you?

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in Flickr - CC "by/nc" license - Mr.GluSniffer. If you read down the comments on the flickr post, Darcy Norman says. That's how much we pay attention when we're subjected to a long one-way lecture. That's how much we pay attention when we're subjected to a long one-way lecture.

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Nancy Schwartz, Guest Post: Don't Even THINK about Social Media until Your Web Site and E-news Are Working Well

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Courtesy of Nancy Schwartz, publisher of Getting Attention. Ensure your Web site and e-news (and despite the challenges of getting attention via email, you gotta have one) are tight, focused, timely and working for your organization.before you even stick a toe into social media waters. We joined for the first time this year.

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Austria conference on access technology

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I met the developer behind WebVisum, which is getting much attention from blind people for its ability to make CAPTCHAs (those annoying squiggly words you have to type to access many websites) accessible. I posted these on my Flickr site with creative commons licenses (of course)!

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Facebook Tips for Nonprofit Success – See What Others are Doing

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Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Post Quality Score - One of the most important new metrics to pay attention to is your post quality score. Flickr photo credit: metaweb20 by CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. In terms of real time tracking, we paid attention to what was getting retweeted during the tweetathon, and the kinds of tweets that got responses. Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S.