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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Even thought I am still reflecting on that Pew report and the comment from Weinberger's blog Even if just 1% of Web users tagged resources with some regularity, they would be creating handholds for the other 99%. One trick you can do is search by combination of tags by adding the "+" between tags. Wow, better than a listserv!

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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. re not searching alone.

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Favorite Free Software

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Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. Google Desktop — Use Google to search your desktop files: [link]. SpyBot Search & Destroy — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs. Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link].

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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 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?

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The Answer to Sean's Question: Tools for Effective Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Robin Good - Ego Searching. strategy is to ???shut

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Ego searches. Robin Good - Ego Searching. strategy is to ???shut

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More Facebook and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. to open its profiles to Google search. Web theorist Dana Boyd outlines some fundamental concerns with Facebook and Scoble responds. Nonprofits can use groups).