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How To: Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Here are some example searches using NetSquared as the organization. “netsquared&# or “net squared&# - putting this in the search term area of the alert would mean that any time “NetSquared&# is mentioned or “Net Squared&# is mentioned, I will get alerted. Twitter Search.

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public) – “At Google’s event today announcing a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, a new partnership was announced: real-time search of public Facebook status updates.

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

Nonprofit advantage for future of Twitter and Search. What’s the cost of “following&# on Twitter? How can nonprofits use Twitter? How to make quality content on Twitter. Good rules for using Twitter. Twitter at use for Tu Diabetes community. Please add your favorite blog posts or examples to the list, too!

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Great reads from around the web on May 17th

Amy Sample Ward

They provide fresh content related to your organisation or business – the type of fresh content that search engines love. Other bloggers are also more likely to link to your blog posts than the home page (or services page) of your website, and those links can bring both referred traffic and a higher ranking on search engines.

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Worth a Look: Scoop.it Digital Content Tool

Amy Sample Ward

You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube.

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