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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Are you a techie who could donate some skills? Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. Mozilla Service Week! - Are you a nonprofit that could benefit from some techie help?

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Social Media Monitoring in 30 Minutes or Less

NetWits

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. Failure is imminent if you don’t learn how to master this skill.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More importantly, have that filtered product available easily to those without API programming skills or a low-tolerance to information overload. So, Allan takes us through a few options and explains here. I admit that I don't understand some of the more technical stuff.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" It does take more time in the beginning if you're just acquiring the skill with a particular tool. But, there's the whole issue of being efficient - and if you have super human getting things dones with social media skills , then it will take you less time. Key skill is pattern analysis. 5 hours per week).

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Twitter Isn't the Point

NTEN

That's the skill we should focus on building. Whether it's Twitter or Digg or Facebook or LinkedIn, it's about those relationships. It's not about whatever the next buzzword is. It's about friends. . It's about building real relationships that inspire people to act on your behalf. We have to teach ourselves to operate that way again.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. There is an interest in a community filtering concept.

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