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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. As the article Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging suggests, "be a lemming" and follow what others are doing which can also help you discover more specialized, niche tags.

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Collabulary, Not Folksonomy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More will be said about this in the section on network effects, but for now it is sufficient to note that there is a distinction between a folksonomy (a collection of tags created by an individual for their own personal use) and a collabulary (a collective vocabulary). folksonomy??? How can they enhance or support? lots to ponder here.

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Putting the Public Back in PR - New Book from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . The chapter identifies a new area for PR folks to measure - education, participation, and collaboration. I wrote an entire chapter about this for the new NTEN book " Technology to Meet Your Mission.".

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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Web Analytics Webinar from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. I get spikes here and there when well-known bloggers link to me in a post or interview or a link is in a news article, but the effect is temporary. re already here.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. How age coding can improve your fundraising effectiveness. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. But putting the cart before the horse -- or tools before the strategy -- should be avoided to ensure the effectiveness of your campaigns. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.