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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

Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask. I identify the key SME experts and immerse myself in their thinking.

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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

This visual comes from Rashimi Sinha's essay on the question Why do people tag? 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." Will virtual communities develop?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use Evernote to bookmark those items to look at later. Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. Wow, this is such an important question. And each day, I work on at least one important task I want to accomplish before opening my inbox or social media.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, the brain fog has started to fade. After introducing ourselves and realizing that we all thought we knew nothing about mobile video blogging, we decided to identify what we didn't know by formulating questions. The questions are way more important than the answers. The bookmarks are here. Rule of thirds.

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