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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. Information flows. Sort the information to find influencers and people to get to know.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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What Does the Data Say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If we (NPOs) are investing in social media, then we should be measuring it to make sure it drives action – this presentation shows a way for just looking at Twitter using Google Analytics. o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools. Twitter is a very simple social network, messaging is all about story and flow.

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Where have all the "twammers" gone? (Twitter Spammers) Hope they don't go to FriendFeed.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Twitter counter. On Thursday, a colleague, Rob Cottingham , asked me via Twitter. Or does Twitter do periodic sweeps for spammers and wipe 'em all at once?" " It made wonder what happened to Mr. PharmacyMan who used to follow me on Twitter and seems to no longer be amongst my followers, along with 300 others.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Here are a few ways to get you diving in: Twitter. Want to find new followers and receive useful statistics to improve your Twitter usage? It’s easy to use: all you have to do is follow the Mr. Tweet twitter account and messages will be sent to you via DM. Twitter Karma. Try it out yourself! Communities.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Hashtag Stats.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With this information, he can see whats happening with the average organization. It's not my analysis.