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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use your blog or twitter or whatever tool to solicit practical ideas on how to use social media to make connections. Set up Google Alerts to follow what's being said about your organization and cause online so that you can act on what's being said, join the conversation and build your community. Lisa Neal ) 2. Johannes).

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. That slowness is great if you want to immerse in a conversation where you reflect and explore, but it can be really annoying if you're trying to come to agreement, determine actions, and make decisions. 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

" And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Conversation Rates. The conversation rate is the average number of comments per post. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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Educational Uses of Back Channels for Conferences, Museums, and Informal Learning Spaces

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Last week, I had my first serious experience with useful back channels at a conference ( WebWise ), and it taught me some lessons about how back channels might be used effectively as a learning tool in museums and other experiential venues (like conferences and classrooms). The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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