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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. For 2011, I’ve submitted a panel titled “ Making Social Media Measurement Sexy &# with a dream team of colleagues Danielle Brigida, Frank Barry, Wendy Harman, Jon Dunn, and David Neff. In 2008, we wore funny hats to go with the theme of our panel.

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Book Reviews

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It basically only focuses on the last “S&# part of the first book: storytelling. It’s one thing to justify huge consulting fees for large for-profit companies where the value can be measured in increasing profits, for instance, and the consulting fees are small fractions of the increased profits. 3 admin 10.23.07

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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

Measuring the Value of Your Blog. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. The What, Why, and How of Facebook Fan Pages. Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. Online Community Engagement Strategies. Vote for All These Awesome Nonprofit Panels At SXSW. What's the sweet spot between personal productivity and social productivity?

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). By becoming better storytellers, a nonprofit can send out a stronger message about the impact of their programs. Gregory, A.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did

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Social Media Marketing White Paper: Key Findings and Nonprofit Lessons

NTEN

How do I measure the effectiveness (ROI) of social media? Here are some additional resources geared specifically to the nonprofit application of social media: NTEN eNews article: Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from 2008 Elections. Free Webinar Recording: Storytelling & Social Media: Creating Buzz. Where do I start?

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Return on Influence: This will be a deep dive into social media metrics and keeping an eye on the new tools that will no doubt debut to help us measure. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter.

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