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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Photo by Dkurpaptwa.

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Using Social Search Techniques for a Research Project. some reflections and a shout for help

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm using some traditional ways to research this topic: -Email to listservs -Posts on online forums -Google search. Over the years I've done a lot of Internet-based research projects and I think it is time for me to do a little rethinking of how to incorporate the social web into this process. The work in progress is here.

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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. Here's the policy for online persona from Easter Seals: Easter Seals Internet Public Discourse Policy SECTION III PART I-9 Approved by board: July 14, 2007. Our goals are: ???

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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

To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0 I knew this already , but it has been so long since I taught Internet Searching skills that I've forgotten it. Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, I starting worrying about the Internet connection in Cambodia. Some possible uses: I put this out on the SalesForce Nonprofit Practitioners listserv. I'm working on a screencast and it might be excellent way to do research or share implicit geek shoudlder-to-shoulder knowledge across the Internet. Yet to be created).

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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