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1475 Articles match "Network","Social Network"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
SXSW was a total whirlwind filled with some of the biggest thought leaders discussing social media (of course) but also about the power of online fundraising and crowdsourcing. Check out more nonprofit campaigner take-aways below.
Michael Cervino, Beaconfire: For online campaigning, a whole new world of tools and tactics is opening up for nonprofits as the commercial sector invests in social media, social networking and more sophisticated UI experiences. While many nonprofit campaigners didn't make SXSW this year, we at Care2's Frogloop and some of our guest writers attended several sessions.
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
But how can these technologies be used by social mission organizations, social entrepreneurs, NGOs and nonprofits to benefit the most vulnerable people in society?
Many But today's technologies have the potential to go much further -- the potential for "constructive disruption" that enables social mission organizations to achieve dramatically greater impact. New Models of Social Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation
The The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
quot; The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication.
It wasn't difficult to itemize their challenges:
Concerns about lawsuits (Tweets are admissible in court!)
Regulations
Security and patient privacy
Lack of comfort with social media by administrators as well as staff (doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals are not always
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
PR Blogger Stephen Davies thinks we’ll start to see a fragmentation of social networks. As people begin to tire with the vast, general nature of MySpace et al , they may migrate to niche social networks that are more relevant to them, their passions and their lives.
Niche social networks can be tapped into for more relevancy in online engagement. He asks:
So what does it mean for brands?
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Many people view online social networking tools, such as Facebook , LinkedIn , and Myspace as time-draining distractions. Facebook also has the benefit of having your installed audience, your network of friends at your fingertips, so you can easily announce new activities, campaigns, and events to your self-selected constituency of like-minded individuals and groups, without having to email a large group of people and risking the effects of a spam filter's black hole.
If you haven't heard of Facebook, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you are living under a rock.
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Nonprofits looking to start using social media as a marketing tool with find a wealth of sound advice online, but putting the pieces together into a solid strategy? In fact, trying to give step-by-step "one size fits all" directions for using social media is a lot like trying to teach a shy first-time party guest how to mingle with strangers.) That's the real challenge. No one simple strategy will work for every nonprofit group. (In
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Social media! But how should nonprofits track their social media? Each objective requires different tools to track your nonprofits social media progress and return on investment. Lets dig in to my top eight social media tracking tools.
Social Social Networking Trends I seriously think it’s "the" buzz word of 2009.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
According to a survey conducted in March 2009 by NTEN, Common Knowledge , and ThePort , social networking has become an integral part of nonprofits’ online strategy. have one or more social networking communities on their own web site. gt; Download the Social Network Survey Report
And You may have already suspected that, but now you can get some hard numbers to justify that Facebook page you've been keeping so tidy and au currant. Then you can go all Matt Damon on your ED:
“You
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
using social media and social networking in their organizations. many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. recently had a chance to discuss social media strategies with members of our Target Analytics Customer Advisory Board. For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Guess what one of the biggest challenges nonprofits face today when adding a blog to their website or diving into social media? These are all valid questions and concerns and point to why it’s important that nonprofits develop and implement guidelines for blogging and managing social media. Social Networking Web 2. Giving up control.
Does this sound familiar?
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Social Networking Web 2. Grassroots Enterprise recently launched “Actions” on Facebook that allows nonprofit organizations' supporters to take action and send a letter to their members of Congress without ever leaving Facebook —and without installing an app. The Actions tab will not only match supporters to federal and state legislative officials based on their addresses but will also capture names and emails in a database.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
After you've gone through the strategic planning, and made sure that, indeed, building your own social network is exactly what you want to do (instead of building on networks already there, which, I think is what should be done 80% of the time), how do you go about doing it? The community and data is not your own, and there is some evidence that they might be using that data in social networks on their platform in ways that they shouldn't be . Elgg . I've heard it a number of times: "Our organization wants our own Facebook." I've been working on this for
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Monday, April 6, 2009
As part of a workshop on social media that I gave with Susan Mernit at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference, I pointed out Wellstone Action as an example of an organization that's doing great work on Twitter. DZ: Was there any organizational resistance to Twitter (or other social media)? In my role as Communications Director, it is After the workshop, I wondered how @wellstoneaction planned their Twitter usage-- were they really some sort of non-profit advocacy Twitter mastermind, as I'd suspected? Elana Wolowitz, the Communications Director and voice behind
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