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Guest Post: Celebrating Beth’s Five Years As Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2) Summary of ROI. When I started at organization in July 2009, the Facebook fan page had about 6,000 fans and now it has over 35,400 fans. . I track the ROI a few ways. (1) 2) Interaction and response from postings (i.e.

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Data Portability update

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I figured, since I’ve been getting a bit involved in the community, I’d give a bit of a summary of what’s going on, and what will possibly come from this effort. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. So first, what is data portability? .&#

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Web 2.0 Part Vb:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There were two different kinds of APIs discussed – the ones that help organizations with interoperability within their organizational systems – getting data from one app to another, and using APIs for things like Google maps mashups. at 7:56 am Michelle- Great summary. Thanks much for getting this going.

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The Crumbling of Nonprofit Arts Organizations: What models will rise from the ashes?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The article includes a link to a google map where you can look at the economic impact in each state. What is the summary of the discussion going on arts organizations blogs? With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury. What do you think?

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

In just 50 minutes Laura Quinn of Idealware , Natalie Foster of the DNC and Rebecca Moore of Google Earth Outreach talked about a ton of great tools to ramp up nonprofits online campaigns ranging from Wikis to Google Earth and Twittter. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?)

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior. The4Cs Social Media Framework in Summary. In its first iteration, Vote Report India leveraged Co-creation by creating a platform for collectively tracking irregularities in the 2009 Indian elections.