Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Understand how the model works , but don't get distracted. But all is not well.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Published Friday, June 06, 2008 8:13 PM by Rebecca. June 6, 2008 10:41 PM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. June 8, 2008 11:03 AM. Leave a Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and networks. I think there are a couple of things that need to be happen before we get to best practices and knowing precisely what works. As Geoff points out: What??? And if you???re

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, April 13, 2011 The cockroach under the refrigerator: scandal and malpractice in philanthropy posted by Travis Butterfield , Project Coordinator ASU Lodestar Center Ever since I worked with Laura Tan on editing her recent blog post , I have been thinking about the unintended effects that volunteer service can have.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s how we generate and use energy, it?s

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

s focused on an important problem ? It is intended to do all of this in an open, collaborative manner which will engage and support the work of numerous researchers, grad students, government policy wonks and others. Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s how we generate and use energy, it?s

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And we should. We value the expertise of our colleagues and welcome any feedback or comments.

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Care2

MARCH 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" And we should. We value the expertise of our colleagues and welcome any feedback or comments.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

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AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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JULY 14, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Good work February 25, 2009 | Mario Erazo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com com , Inc.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" That works out to an average of about $1.24 per supporter. Here is a graph of the results.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" That works out to an average of about $1.24 per supporter. Here is a graph of the results.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2007

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" How’s it working for your nonprofit? For me it was no problem. Thanks for sharing.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Somehow, a while back, we slipped from solving social problems to treating social ills.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

He has worked as a public relations strategist in the Washington, D.C. It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. region for more than 17 years.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com How about Digg ?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. The buzzwords have changed and the technology has gotten more sophisticated – but the problems many nonprofits are facing are exactly the same.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “Open Source Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. Problem solved. Compare OpenOffice/NeoOffice and MS Office/iWork. Now compare IIS and Apache.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" September 14, 2007 | TheMySpaceConsultant Copyright © 2008, Care2.com How about Digg ?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Beth Kanter is a nonprofit rock star and I’ve had the good fortune of being her editor for a book chapter , a supporter of her work, and she’s always been receptive to my thoughts and the occasional guest post on her blog. I can hear a lot of techie people pointing out that you can build apps that work on multiple platforms.

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Care2

MAY 7, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Advocacy, however, has been more successful. All rights reserved.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 20, 2011

There are certainly pros and cons to using these but they work. This may cause problems with donors in non-US countries. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Turns out that part of the problem was that many nonprofits didnt understand functional expense accounting or reporting rules. To make matters worse, Charity Navigator seemed standoffish and unwilling to work with the field or adjust its approach despite some pretty obvious shortcomings in its methods. Keep up the good work!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

2008), in which he emphasizes the importance of designing evaluations to insure their usefulness, rather than simply creating long reports that may never get read or never result in any practical changes. . I'm not an evaluation practitioner, so I wasn't sure exactly whether there would be any connection to my work in social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." So you’d still have the same problem. There is a new site, called " Campus Reader " which aggregates feeds from college news sources. " What else is it that us geeks do? I like it. Is this news? {

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Start your nomination today for the 2008 Purpose Prize. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" That being said, maybe I have somewhat of a problem reaching whoever I want to reach by the more 2.0

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

The organization has received numerous awards for its work, and Fisher recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. I do that with a grain of salt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The description: What works and rhymes? Tell me what thy wildlife name is on the twitter feed-but be sure! That Twitter was the answer to all their programs' problems evermore. . `At My twitter feed: [link]. NWF's Twitter feed: [link]. launched pilot program in 2007 to see if it worked. Come measure success.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. Buy advertising?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The only use of volunteers involved carrying avatars from Utrecht to The Hague. Buy advertising?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. A team of us said, "We would study what works in citizen engagement." What are the things that I've seen that have worked? He's with EchoDitto , now working with One Sky.

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