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ROI (Results on Insights): Nonprofit Examples of How Listening Returns Value

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. " But what does that really mean?

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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Best Practices for Content Curation for Nonprofits at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A curator needs to have superb social media monitoring and listening skills — that means knowing the right keywords on the topic and sources, agility with “ aggregator ” tools, and the daily discipline of foraging for the best content and evaluating your finds before sharing.

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Using Peer Learning Strategies To Build A Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Increase reach on social media channels. Cultivate “super fans”.

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What Tools Do You Use for Making Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Use Efficient?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post. Is there a tool that can automate this someone asked on my blog’s Facebook page ?

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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.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. 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 Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.