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Listen First! Finding Networks and Connections in Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. industry and local news. Set up keyword searches and it brings you relevant tweets and links. Conversations take place in both places separately and together. Multi-channel conversations. Lessons for Listening: Don’t be afraid!

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by John K. Whether it is through a search engine like Google or Baidu , a hashtag via social media, or a tag to use in a You Tube video then it is making your work more visible to your target market. Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan?

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Member Round Up: The End is Near!

NTEN

Flickr: Sarah_Ackerman What a year, NTEN members! The event attracts women from a broad spectrum of technological specialties, professions, industries, levels of expertise, and generations, for networking, “un”-conference style. Thank you for everything you’ve done, and all the good you’ve created in the world.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). What Is Web 2.0? Citizen journalism. Google Maps. Podcasting.

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Chris Brogan's Social Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by My Alieness. s a way to think of it: Build an ego search- Use tools like Technorati and Google Blogsearch to build a search on your company???s Find blogs about your specific space or industry and subscribe to a handful of them. re part of a company in a certain space, here???s s name, your products???

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Listening Literacy Skills: What keywords or phrases have brought you some insights?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. Industry terms or other phrases. Andy Beal also suggests searching on intellectual property and your known strengths and weaknesses.

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Steven Slater & JetBlue Make a Great Case for Open Leadership

NTEN

Flickr: mi.chael If you've engaged any news source this week, you've probably heard about Steven Slater. A YouTube search for "Steven Slater " results in 499 videos, many of them praising his actions. For many organizations and individuals, this would have been a disastrous situation.

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