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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

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Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The Second C: Collaboration.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry !

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

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was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. literally speak a different language from the rest of us. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 Unclear application.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

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We trust different people and institutions in different ways--to be respectful, to keep our secrets, to give us love, to give us information. On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources.

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're curious about Occam's Razor, here's a more detailed description or see the simplicity page in wikipedia. " She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. Unique Visitors. Thanks for the feedback.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

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Kikono - Digg for NpTech. A quick trip through nonprofit profiles in MySpace, one sees two different aesthetics - ugly and beautiful. via Social Signal comes a suggestion to nonprofits to start monitoring their organization's Wikipedia entry because they often rank at or near the top of Google search results. technologies.

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