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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, Allison Fine and I, along with colleagues Danielle Bridiga and Marc Sirkin gave a Care 2 Webinar on the Networked Nonprofit. Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. The above visual is a social network. Each dot represents a person or in network jargon, a node.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Zoetica Salon Summary: A Few Good Social Media Measurement Insights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. Here’s the summary and it is filled with useful tips and practice.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

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The concept that a new blog post must be published daily is definitely a relic of the past. For example, the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network makes wise use of their sidebar by prominently featuring a call-to-follow on social networks and an e-newsletter opt-in. A nonprofit can blog once a week or every other week.

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What Can Location-Based Social Networks Learn from Dogs?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe Stewart will leave a comment with a summary of the answers.). A couple of teasers in the play by play that will make me definitely go and listen to the entire podcast with ear towards reflecting on any insights about working wikily : Training as a barrier to adoption - wikis are simple. Giving and taking.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

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If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Provide Organizational Updates.

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

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To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. Keep Your Group’s Summary and Description Brief. Limit your LinkedIn “Group Summary” and “Group Description” to one paragraph each that clarifies some possible topics of discussion for your group.

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