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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Think beyond B-list celebrities hawking manufactured diamonds. They must also provide the authority and guidance that unites strategy, brand, and voice across the organization. But ongoing inter-organization communication and dialogue are even more important.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. The taxonomy of social and environmental terms enables the aggregation of data from different providers and multiple data collection systems. “ .

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Congratulations Dr. Salmons!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My dissertation, "Taxonomy of Collaborative E-learning," was based on a qualitative study conducted entirely online. While the Taxonomy I developed is focused on e-learning for the purpose of the dissertation, it will lend itself to planning other kinds of collaborative processes. Love, Dr. Salmons Janet writes two blogs!

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While Allan has been in Vietnam celebrating the lunar New Year and eating exotic foods, he has still managed to get online, play with Pipes, and IM me about it. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her! I developed a Taxonomy of Collaborative E-Learning- -a new conceptual framework for understanding levels of collaboration and ways to organize learning activities so participants learn to achieve collective outcomes.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Democracy in Action has invited everyone into the NpTech Oscar Pool Katya Andresen from Network for Good gives us the lastest celebrity news (what no gossip?)

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