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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Dwinton. You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need. I've also summarized the story of a how one social media guru, David Armano, leveraged his large network to help a family a need and has stepped into the role of donor stewa

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NTEN Takes Care of Its Community in Tough Times

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past eight years, I've attended NTC , NTEN's premiere conference for nonprofit techies.* During the holidays, I was talking to Holly Ross on Twitter wondering if the bad economy would be a damper on conference attendance. Despite the tough economic times, it seems the community is really excited about the 2009 NTC. According to Holly, folks are registering at a break-neck pace, and sponsors have provided more support than ever before.

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Thank you for the best birthday ever! We raised $6,158 for the Sharing Foundation to send 615 Cambodian youngsters to school!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cambodian youngster in the Sharing Foundation 's Education program practices her alphabet. In Roteang Village, where the Sharing Foundation has programs that help over 1,500 children each and every day, there was a birthday bash at the orphanage for the 70 plus children. The Sharing Foundation hosts an annual, for-everybody-at-once Birthday party, with cake, fruit, and soda.

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Bora Vuth and Samphy Y for your birthday donation - 1 day till my birthday!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Thankyou to everyone who has donated so far and I'll be sharing a reflection about this campaign in the coming days for sure. Bora Vuth and Sampy Y are two Cambodians who are attending graduate school in other countries, on scholarship. They know personallyh the power of getting an education in a country like Cambodia and know that even at $10 donation to purchase a uniform will make all the difference in the world for that child.

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I'll Text for Food

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Joi No, I'm not talking about texting in your take out order. I'm taking about No Kid Hungry Text Donation and Canned Food Campaign just launched by Share Our Strength. Hunger is a serious issue in America, especially in these hard times. Bloggers have helped raised awareness of this important issue. Amy Sherman, who does the Cooking With Amy blog, participated in the Hunger Challenge along with several Bay Area food bloggers, including The Kitchn , Tablehopper , Alanna Kellogg , Blo

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How Do You Browse By Category Blog Content from NpTech Bloggers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have a confession. I have many years of blog content. It is hard for me to find posts because I have too many categories (over 200) and an idiosyncratic way of organizing them. No wonder I get emails and DM's from folks telling me they can't find a particular blog post. That was one of the reasons that lead me to the streamline goal and as part of that a blog redesign.

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