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Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The primary function of a Content Management System—making it easy for non-technical staff to update content—helps facilitate constituent interaction by helping your nonprofit better attract and engage visitors to its website. It’s a complicated question, and just one of the things you should look for when choosing software.

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Show Me Experiments and Realistic Outcomes for Tagging/RSS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That aside, Joistke goes on to reflect on the usefulness of tagging and rss feeds for her work with communities of practices (and by extension - nonprofit organizations.) She describes the value in terms of avoiding information overload for busy professionals. This is a huge shift RSS/tagging can bring into the workspace."

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Teaching Nonprofits How To Bring Relevant Information To Their Desktop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. So here's his " Bringing relevant information to your electronic desktop."

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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

I had the opportunity to facilitate the IT track and had lots of fun poking, prodding, and supporting some really interesting conversations and sharing sessions. The social impact landscape in Romania is complex and exciting – you can see struggle and hope, fear and enthusiasm mixed in every conversation and every presentation.

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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

Tech has radically altered production and transmission of knowlege and information. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology. Jon Lebkowsky.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Crafting a Successful Third Generation.

ASU Lodestar Center

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. Also, the caliber of other workshop facilitators was definitely a plus!

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). What's the tone, formal or informal? What do you do to facilitate it? Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn?

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