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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained.

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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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Reflection on Action Learning at CP2 Workshop: Tagging and Delicious

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Go to del.icio.us , a social bookmarking or tagging tool, and create an account (if you don't already have one). This lead to us some deeper reflection questions: Is popularity (frequency of the number of people who bookmark a link) an indication of quality? When finished return here and reflect on your experience.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. Are these the early adopters of the Internet and whose brains have evolved along with the growth of electronic information and have superhuman prcocessing skills? She recently posted about a demonstration she gave during a meeting with members of the "Dutch ???e-collaboration???

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. I'm very excited about it. I am working on making a living turning other people on to it all. But no such luck, it's broken.

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