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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out?

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Great reads from around the web on January 25th

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's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea." " Check it out! " Check it out!

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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

Museum 2.0

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. But I live in a digital world in which text is still king.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to Lisa Neal's " Ten Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes To Be A More Successful E-Learning Professional." Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional. Professional. Collective bookmarking is an extremely powerful learning tool! Set up a twitter account.

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. .

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Birthday Greeting.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. Heather at Aspiration is doing some research on blogging and professional development. Social bookmarking in plain English! " If you are wondering about whether you should integrate social features in your web site , here's a good article that explains the benefits.

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