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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. Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. The other terms.

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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. The guide helped me understand that I was looking for both specific conferences as well as lists of conferences in those areas by knowledgeable people.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Remember to include both hard skills (specific knowledge and technical qualifications) and soft skills (behavioral characteristics, personality traits, and attributes of work style). Tags: IT staffing NPTech NTEN Newsletter cassie scarano. Now it is time to translate that vision into reality. Screening Candidates.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

The artifacts are reaccessioned, the labels (hopefully) recycled, but what happens to the knowledge? NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? Wendy: We were also very concious about not wanting ExhibitFiles to interfere the ASTC/ISEN listserv. What happens to an exhibit when it closes?

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Groundswell Book Club Part 4: Customer Support

Museum 2.0

This spectator effect means that the online forums don’t just provide direct support—they create growing bodies of knowledge about products. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing usercontent.

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September Net2 Think Tank Roundup: Curating Content

Tech Soup

trusted body of knowledge and the 'why' has to do with providing a service to a busy and information-inundated nonprofit sector. tried turning email discussions on listservs into blog posts and opting to record conference call presentations. We also reinforce the conference tag. We also reinforce the conference tag.

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