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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Check out his illustration of the panel).

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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instead, content curation helps us keep focused. While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It This is where I have learned valuable lessons about content curation, for example, by participating in the comments.

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Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

Amy Sample Ward

Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. Within 30 minutes, I registered a domain name, launched a fundraising site on CauseVox , and seeded it with key influencers on Twitter to help build momentum. What were successful techniques or elements of SXSWcares?

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DIY Nonprofit Technology: 5 Tips For Increasing Engagement on Facebook

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following first appeared in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Use pre-scheduling tools to help you keep engagement up over the weekend, say, or to post when you'll be away or unavailable for a period of time. Always Be Commenting This one is simple, and comes from a wonderful post by Guy Kawasaki.

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Measuring Your Social Media Success

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. The book is well-researched and offers frameworks for thinking about how to link technology to a theory of change.

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