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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. " As a marketing person, I would be annoyed if every promotion was successful and extremely hyped but did not somehow lead to a sale. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months. I wholeheartedly agree !

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Adding fundraising to social media campaigns is another key focus area for nonprofits.