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Can Social Network Analysis Help You Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence. In the analysis, one thing I learned was the importance of instant thank yous - not only via Twitter, but other way channels. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Then, try to think in even broader terms. score out of 5.0).

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

We have compiled this list through interviews with public- and private-sector leaders; analysis of initiatives, organizations and government programs; reviews of industry and mainstream news coverage; and submissions from thousands of online participants."

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Advancing Social Media Measurement for Philanthropic Outcomes #sm_re

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. This comes from my first book, ” The Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with Alison Fine.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. What do “Semantic Analysis” and “Natural Language Processing” mean, and how do they make the Social Actions API better?

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. iMIS rounded out the bottom four.)

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