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12 Not-So-Great Realities About Nonprofits and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever. Social networks are for-profits enterprises and their revenue models are almost entirely based on advertising revenue. Just block and forget. But $3 for a click-though on an ad?!

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Transmedia — Making Change Across Mediums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I became a documentary filmmaker to tell meaningful stories that explore social issues and inspire change. When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited.

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Advancing Social Media Measurement for Philanthropic Outcomes #sm_re

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. We’ll go round-robin style to find out how you should spend your time, whether you have 10 minutes, 30 minutes, or 60 minutes a day to devote to social media.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Some intuitively know and use the new model.

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Cocktail Party Participation: Revisiting Twitter

Museum 2.0

Each person with an account on Twitter effectively has two social networks—your outgoing set of followers (people who receive your tweets) and your incoming set of tweets from the people you follow. I thought that Twitter was for broadcasting—a different but related kind of broadcasting from blogging.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. t think I???ve Come on, get real already.