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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. One trick you can do is search by combination of tags by adding the "+" between tags.

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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

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful?

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

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Most NpTech blogs are high school level. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. SEO/SMO Grassroots.Org has a general primer on Search Engine Optimization for Nonprofits, although some of the information in the linkbuilding section is circa 1999.

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NTEN Communities of Practice FAQ

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Each CoP has space in the NTEN groups platform ([link] You can search for current CoP’s by entering “CoP” in the search bar on the upper right hand corner of your browser window. The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Where does the CoP “live”?

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

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The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

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In fact, approximately 75% of nonprofit jobs are filled by strong candidates before the search ever becomes public. Tags: IT staffing NPTech NTEN Newsletter cassie scarano.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. An organization becomes strongly associated with a topic not just in people's minds but in search engines and that translates to more attention. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. The benefits? Well, attention is one.