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Back on the Needles

Judi Sohn

Before, there were some high-activity listservs and sites with patterns to download. Now, there’s podcasts, blogs and knitting social networks. When I fell “asleep,” knitting was a different world. Now there’s so much for knitters online, it’s hard to grasp it all. The place to be as a knitter online seems to be Ravelry.

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Interview Series from Water Words That Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eric Eckl's personal blog, Water Words That Work , a blog and web video (and podcast) series that explores the intersection of language, technology and environmental protection. Eric recently emailed me to tell that he has put down his video camera down and is trying his hand(rather mouth)at some Larry King-style podcast interviews.

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Whats Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile: I'm A Creator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether podcasting or maintaining a website, the amount of content you create makes your Groundswell Social Technographic group a valuable target for social media marketers. Discover Your Groundswell Social Technographics Profile Your Result: Creator. With all the blogging and video making you do, I'm surprised you had time to take this quiz.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The array of tools available for inward facing work incorporates many of the same social media tools one could use for external communications such as blogs, wikis, and podcasting, but also includes online collaboration tools including teleconferencing tools , email list tools , and others. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.).

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. The two most common tweets are event reminders and automatic RSS feed updates, but museums are also tweeting with podcast and video links, updates on exhibits or animals, fly on the wall observations from inside the galleries among others.

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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. To that end, CompuMentor/TechSoup has produced a lot of articles on blogging and related technologies like RSS and podcasting. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. By that I mean that they should expose themselves online.