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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. 8) Get to know your Twitter Analytics Dashboard.

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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

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You?

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Women in Technology: 2 Ways you CAN get Involved!

Amy Sample Ward

While the 2008 Women Who Tech TeleSummit was a smashing success with over 650 women including Arianna Huffington and Joan Blades defying the stereotype that the tech world belongs to pocket-protector toting guys hooked on sci-fi and video games, 2009 will be even better. We want to hear about it. Submit your panel ideas at here.

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How the Alabama Eye Bank Runs Its Entire Organization on FileMaker

Tech Soup

He has kept his skills current by attending FileMaker developer conferences from time to time. The Alabama Eye Bank operates the Global Sight Network , a service the eye bank started in 2008 to provide corneas prepared through long-term preservation to health-care facilities in developing countries. at the Alabama Eye Bank.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

To identify an appropriate messenger, the report suggests that you ask yourself what knowledge and skills are required for the presentation, who has those requirements and is available, what his/her credentials are, and how those might best be highlighted to the audience. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. Evaluation.

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The Olympics – A Guideline to Continuous Learning

Gyrus

Sure there are special broadcasts that detail typical training regimens for certain prolific athletes, and I for one am quite interested in attempting to eat the 2008 diet of Michael Phelps, who famously proclaimed he was consuming 12,000 calories a day. However, I am sure that sounds a little more glorious than the actual act would be.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Information Coping Skills and Social Media Productivity Skills This is more personal use, but if you are a nonprofit professional tasked with social media strategy you will need skills in these areas.

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