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A Twitter follower is worth $0.24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. All communications were strictly limited to my blog, Twitter and Facebook. Two donors were former colleagues who also have Twitter accounts.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And there still are lots of newer software and services that aren’t coming out in Linux versions (for instance there does not exist a decent usable twitter client for Linux – gwitter is not very usable at all, and the others just don’t work.) at 7:18 pm { 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 jack 06.24.08

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Beth Terry, Fake Plastic Fish: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

Beth has been living plastic-free since 2007 and blogs about her adventures at FakePlasticFish.com. You can follow Beth on Twitter at @fakeplasticfish , on the Fake Plastic Fish Facebook page , and on her personal Facebook page. We won the costume contest. The eighth guest blogger in my have fun, do good series is Beth Terry.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. Here's a few useful resources on Twitter and Nonprofits. Details here. Not at all?

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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