Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Network + Self-Organizing + Location + Data Visualization = 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data Visualization: Given the volume of information and our ability to connect with more people, in order to manage our work visualization is now critical. These ideas are going to have an impact on the way nonprofits use the Web in 2010 and into the next couple of years. You can also follow other people's plans.

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Emergency Social Data Summit: We Can All Participate Remotely

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Red Cross is hosting the Emergency Social Data Summit today Thursday, August 12, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM (ET). This U-Stream will be archived via The Emergency Social Data blog. This is a great way for your voice to be heard and added to the Crisis Data wiki ( [link] ). You can participate remotely.

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Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Prior to founding Cloud for Good , I worked for a nonprofit organization that loved to collect information. It was a great tool to analyze quantitative information but it did not enable me to manage relationships between the information I tracked; Excel is “flat”. They could not access the information when they needed it most.

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How and When Should Your Nonprofit Organization Invest in Mobile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A recent conversation with nonprofit tech colleagues in a Facebook group provided just the kind of information that nonprofits need to make those kinds of decisions. We have a very active open data movement here and the city has made huge amounts of data now open to the public. Social media.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Make the Most of Its LinkedIn Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As most of you probably know, LinkedIn—the networking site for professionals—expanded its scope to include company pages back in 2010. Page Analytics : With this feature, organizations can be more informed than ever about their network following. Get more detailed demographic data about your followers.

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My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. As far as geekery topics, I’m particularly excited to explore some of the new tools for coping with the ever expanding information on social networks and mobile. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Foot Traffic Philanthropy: Location Based Mobile Application - CauseWorld

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

trends of 2009 and my 2010 predictions are right on. And, of course, there is the trade-off - the fact that you're trading in your shopping habits data for corporate donors. It would be interesting to see the data on who saves up versus who gives away their Karma points and what the pay off is for the charity.