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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. 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. Family members.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Learnings from FriendFeed Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. More analysis from Steve MacLaughlin Eric Johnson shared Text to Save Lives.

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Year-End Fundraising Up in 2011

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In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. A ton more gifts – 93% saw an increase in the number of gifts made.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Speaking of Google, check out this new doc uploader and this bookmark service that aggregates all social bookmarking sites in one click (for those of us tool fondlers who need more than one tool for each type. And if you???re

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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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

blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. In my initial analysis of mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet , I did not look at hashtags. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. This takes some facilitation.

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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you read the summaries? I admit it.

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