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I hope Gavin puts his witty comments on Social Search into a blog post at his digital dinner.

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I decided to do an action learning experiment on these questions: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads than traditional techniques? Gavin left a witty comment , chucked with some excellent advice. What social networking tools are the best ones to integrate?

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. A sampling of effective HRW staff on Twitter: High volume, effective technique. Please share your experience in the comments below. There’s another benefit.

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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

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. I was multi-tasking scraping the archives of some nonprofit listservs to see what else might turn up. The final list will be available over at the client's workspace on Omidyar, a wiki-like space. I thanked her.

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy?

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Information Island Grand Opening Celebration: Jeff Barr, Amazon Presentation

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I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. While the presenter encouraged us to "think outloud" by typing comments in the chat as a substitute for body language, there wasn't a lot of interaction.

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Another blog community and cross-blog conversation thread

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This is an experiment on my part to see if distributed conversation can transcend the containers (blogs, listservs, etc) and how. " Steve and I exchanged a quick comments about online facilitation practice and community design in community blogs. If you are new, start at the beginning.

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

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style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? " came from a comment left by Gavin and summarized in this post.