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Research Friday: So. What About These Numbers?

ASU Lodestar Center

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Nonprofit Blogging Policies. Giving Good Poke.

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Professional Networking: Just for Fun or Part of Your Job Or Combination? Tips for managing multi-memberships in social networks?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What initially caught my eye was the demographic (age analysis) of LinkedIn VS Facebook users. While the demographics of Facebook are younger compared to LinkedIn, the Compete analysis shows that Facebook users are maturing. This inspired me to put a friending policy on my limited profile. And that's the way I've operated.

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Becoming A Social Media Savvy Nonprofit, Nurturing A Social Culture Through Personal Use

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Dietrich I love the Red Cross's approach to scaling its engagement strategy by involving the whole organization - it is spelled out in their strategy handbook and policy guidelines. The first steps are simple once you have policy/philosophy in place and the right mix of bottom up/top down adoption or acceptance of social media.

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Quick Hit: A Love Letter to Createquity

Museum 2.0

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? Led by Ian David Moss of Fractured Atlas , Createquity offers weekly(ish) long format posts on arts policy, research, strategy, and funding. When you want cogent arguments with charts to back them up?

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Web 2.0 Part III: Blogs, Podcasting and Vlogs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It has really defined policies and procedures. Good analysis. Organization 1 is a medium-sized mental health organization in a smallish city in the Northeast. It gets most of its clients by referral, and just about all of its funding by state or federal contract. So, should this ED start a blog, or should the organization have a blog?

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How Can My Nonprofit Get Started with Measurable Advocacy?

Connection Cafe

These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. Others equate it to the number of messages sent to decision makers, or by looking at whether a policy measure either passes or fails by vote in committee or on the floor of a legislative body.