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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). The Collaboration Prize – Search Database – Wow! Check it out! Check out this great resource – a database of collaborations! "The

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. Too much serendipity and I don’t feel like I accomplish anything. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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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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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. To figure out your keywords, do a little brainstorming offline and then maybe use some online keyword tools. Do search at site for the first time.

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RSS Readers and the Search for Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. If this leads to me wanting to return to the blog on a regular basis, I add to my bloglines account.

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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). Come back later, give the system time to update, and spend a brief time exploring the search aspects of your tags, others linked tags and the common tags. Do a search on our prescribed tag CoP+maven or use this URL [link].

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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 the lunch on the second day, I sat down with Marshall Kirkpatrick to pick his brain on mobile video blogging and camera phones. Marshall shared his personalized Google search engine and we used to identify a few good links which turned out to be very valuable. The bookmarks are here.

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