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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Technology. Technology. Social Change. I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Oh no, your query is analyzed and sent to a knowledgable ChaCha Guide who is trained to search and already knows a lot about the very thing you???re

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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Are you a digital curator, packrat, editor, or snacker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. " In 1999, after working 6 years on the web, I wrote this piece on how my online work had changed based on different job labels. I think I'm a digital curator.

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. I've been doing a small research project.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. The first step in ensuring effective hiring of technology staff is to engage in a comprehensive needs assessment. Needs Assessment.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

The artifacts are reaccessioned, the labels (hopefully) recycled, but what happens to the knowledge? How did this come to be an ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) project? and they are concerned that they are supporting the development of exhibitions, and once the exhibits travel, the knowledge really disappears.

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[VIDEO] Building a Better Grants Strategy Post-COVID

Bloomerang

A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. And so that can really change things which makes you more susceptible to burnout and increased stress. It could be equipment, technology.

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