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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. Using the web to execute a transaction, such as banking or shopping. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ?

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. What is the ROI of the Social Web for Nonprofits? And both can be difficult to measure.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, of course, always, for developers. 4 Brian 06.25.08

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 " Good is advocating for a new type of knowledge worker - he calls them Newsmasters. The person uses a combination of machine automation and topic-specific expert knowledge. and Communities of Practice Online Conference.

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What Does Big Data Have to Do With Me and My Organization?

Tech Soup

Grameen has a team of community knowledge workers who go out in the fields of Uganda and collect agricultural information on their mobile devices. From Around the Web. Jake Porway cites the Grameen Foundation ’s Mobile Data Collection and Extension Service as one of the easiest-to-understand charity big data projects.

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