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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. I'm so glad I was able to guide myself to the best tool for my needs, but more often I need help from peers. Sometimes clarifying questions. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Five Hot Conversations!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Tag Skypecast Anyone? Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call next wed, thurs, or friday to discuss in real time the issues that have surfaced around the NpTech Tag. GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. Change the World!

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Be sure to check out Beginner's Guide to Facebook and How to promote your Cause on Facebook articles. This beautifully designed and well written concise guide is a must-read. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! What reading level is your blog?

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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. Wow, better than a listserv! Okay, it is time to actually do some (billable) work.

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Whats Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile: I'm A Creator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've noticed this in the nptech stream, we have conversations scattered in listservs, forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace, and other social media nooks and crannies. So, if you look at the scattering in light of the profile tool - perhaps that can also be a good guide as to where to start listening.

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Are you a digital curator, packrat, editor, or snacker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm thinking a lot lately about tagging communities (NpTech Tag), information coping skills, and distributed and disperse nature of networked/connected knowledge sharing. " The call of the curator requires people who are selfless and willing to act as sherpas and guides. I think I'm a digital curator.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. It dawned on me that I could play with some of those social search tools and went over to the ChaCha search engine where I searched with a human guide. My experience is here. My experience is here.