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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

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4) There isn't a place inside of the virtual world where you can easily post the agenda and I haven't found a virtual flip chart yet. I've always had chat as a back channel to a conference call and used it to summarize key points as a sort of electronic flip chart. This gets me back to wanting that virtual flip chart.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. I learn so much from Kaushik, but I'm seem drawn more to qualitative measures and the integration of numbers too.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

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Why doesn't typepad have this integrated into its platform? Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to more or less go up. I especially appreciate both the quality and the personal nature of your posts and learning tools." A time consuming pain.