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

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Sean of the Tactical Philanthropy blog called me the batman of nonprofit technology. will save the day and point us all to a nifty new gadget that makes things easier (Beth Kanter: The Batman of nonprofit technology! ???Where I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using.

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Are They Listening Carefully or Not At All?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think it is a pretty critical marketing practice despite what technology tools you are using. Technorati. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). One of the key points is listening. tools successfully. Tracking Blog Conversations. Ice Rocket.

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

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Shirley Williams ponders the Communities of Practice Online Collaboration Exercise "The best way for doubters to control a questionable new technology is to embrace it, lest it remain wholly in the hands of enthusiasts who think there is nothing questionable about it." Technorati Tags: VECoP Personally I think I???ve

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Technorati , a blog search engine. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

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Nancy takes us through a gradient of modalities and technologies for synchronous meetings. I posted a question on the educator listserv and there doesn't seem to be one. Technorati Tags: VECoP And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication?

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! "A blogger's influence should not be measured by in-bound links (like technorati), but out-bound links. In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran.

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