If you do anything professionally related to online technology, you understand the immense amount of data you need to sort through daily. Daily email roundups blogs to read, Facebook posts and to check, tweets to scroll through, news sites, and that doesn't include whatever else arrives in your inbox. I literally cannot keep up with all that I want to know about social media technology and its use for engagement, fundraising and advocacy. It's really...too much to know. That's when I began trusting the curators.

n an attempt to codify why I read professional blogs, I created a paradigm for choosing which blogs to read. However, before creating the paradigm, I had to decide on my professional learning goals for reading blogs. Those goals and related blogs are outlined in this blog post. How do you choose which blogs to read?

Mark Horvath interviews Beth Kanter on social media time management, crowd sourcing, influence and fundraising.

Social media takes so much time! Why does it always seem to take us away from work tasks, or so hard to manage effectively. Hannah Katzman offers her thoughts on how to stay in control, and why it's so difficult to manage social media in this guest post.