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Mindful or Mind Full Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My talk is a call to action to nonprofits to be more intentional and mindful in how they curate and consume content from social networks. I’ll be talking about the art and practice of good curation and also share some techniques for staying focused while doing working on social media for practitioners. The Information Diet.

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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Information Coping Skills Wikispaces. Mindfulness'

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Nonprofits Live Recap: Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

Homer’s first recommendation to encourage collaboration is to eliminate distractions by being mindful of how technology can get in the way, and to try to be present. Wikispaces. Wikispaces. In particular, Homer cites the pitfalls of multitasking, which as studies have shown can detract from our efforts to engage fully.

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NTC08: Social Media ROI Case Study Slam

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm beginning to post the slides and detailed notes from the session at NTC08 here on my blog and on my Social Media Metrics Wikispace. What's important to keep in mind? | View | Upload your own. The introduction set the ground rules and offer these overview points to the what and why of social media ROI. Learning is important.

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Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: The ROI Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Keep in mind what your core goals are (why is your employer paying you) and try to manage and budget this. So, I imagine the adoption issues are similar to moving to intranet, wikispace, or basecamp to manage team or internal communications.

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t have minded, but I guess I just felt my digital immigrant accent cut in when I thought 1) I shouldn???t t mess with their stuff, and 2) about the need for some control over my own work. Wow, no wonder it???s s hard to convince others of trying to let go of ???old old ways???

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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dave wrote about levels of responsibility and in my mind I connected it to the activism ladders of engagement for activism. The wikispaces discussion feature on each page is great for brainstorming ideas, problem solving, or pre-writing. You have to register for wikispaces in order to add yourself. Levels of Participation.