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A Few More Tips for Nonprofit Professionals To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, this might be a good opportunity to read that great article about a professional topic that you bookmarked but never have time to read. Sometimes I use part of that free time to take a little walk around my desk to reboot my brain. How do you manage your time so you are productive and not overwhelmed?

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Great reads from around the web on March 30th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It is the brain-child of Ewa Wojkowska and Toshi Nakamura who have extensive experience in international development as UN staff members."

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Since I’m working on an array of subjects over the past five years, I have a lot of them in my RSS reader and Twitter lists or I find them via keyword scans.) Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Saved as a favorite|bookmarked!!}, {I really like|I like|I love} {your blog|your site|your web site|your website}!| I stumbledupon it {I will|I am going to|I’m going to|I may} {come back|return|revisit} {once again|yet again} {since I|since i have} {bookmarked|book marked|book-marked|saved as a favorite} it.

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like a farmer tending his crops, I'd scan through each folder, each feed, bookmarking and annotating what caught my eye, and looking for patterns and connections. So, it's like I have a left brain, orderly, linear way to scan and a right brain, wildly creative way to scan. It still is, but I now use other methods for scanning.

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Social Analysis of Tagging: How Tagging Transforms the Solitary Browsing Experience Into A Social One

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The challenge for tagging systems is to then do what the brain does - intelligent computation to make sense of these local observations, and an efficient, predictable way to ensure findability." Are people more likely to copy or view the most popular bookmarks (hence making them more popular)? Will virtual communities develop?

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