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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. It kinds of gets in the way of effective facilitation.

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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the learning tools I created for the workshop was an information overload self-assessment, a simple quiz with yes/no questions that let folks diagnose the degree of information overload they were feeling. My outline is here. And, if you want, take the quiz, it is easy. Answer yes or no to the questions below.

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

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" And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. 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.

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

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A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools.