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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

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. What does that mean for you?

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Senior-Friendly Tools To Get Grandma Wired

NTEN

Below is a list of resources, including the tools my Grandmother is already using, that can help you to teach a retired friend or relative how to get the most out of the internet. . While not specific to older people, it's definitely a useful resource. (As Getting Started. Getting Social. Thanks for sharing this, Rich Quick !

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Crazy for the Tools

NTEN

For step-by-step, go-at-your-own pace tutorial documentation, definitely try ScreenSteps. Notes and Bookmarks After starting and stopping for years, I have come to embrace Evernote. Evernote is a different way to bookmark sites than, say, Delicious.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I came across Jeremiah Owyang's definition of online community -"An online community is: Where a group of people with similar goals or interests connect and exchange information using web tools" and it defines the tagging community. If you are in a position of teaching this skill to nonprofits, what do you show them?

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs

Have Fun - Do Good

Next week I'll be teaching a session about blogging during a nonprofit social media webinar, We Are Media, presented by NTEN. Share breaking news within your field Chances are someone on your staff is already bookmarking and forwarding news stories about your issue each day.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog. Can you find more?

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Some of my thinking has definitely evolved. s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. 2) Bookmarks can???t Act 2: Definitions.