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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

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David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects. Brainstorm: Methods for generating new ideas – recombining, adding, subtracting.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

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 way we engage in public dialogue, coordinate, solve problems—all of it is shifting. New networks are emerging everywhere.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No problem. The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki. So in today's Webinar called " 10 Steps To Extension 2.0 We got started about a half hour late. Now, that has never happened.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively). What reflective questions do you ask while looking at your data?

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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. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. e-collaboration??? Your tag or mine?

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Tagging on Twitter? #nptech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy and I have noticed how our usage of RSS and social bookmarking seems to be less. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Alan Levine also wrote a reflection about wanting to see a resurgence of blogging but also admitting how much fun it is share information via twitter.

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