Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify exposure Time spent on page & Vote count from poll program ??? google syntax to show you who???s s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ??? to quantify engagement PROCESS / STRATEGY Measuring buzz -link love ???

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Case Study ROI Social Media Contest 50

Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

If youve ever used My Yahoo! YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online.

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API Convio Open Social Media 28

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

With the exception of mobile pages created specifically for group text messaging and QR code campaigns (donate, petitions, polls, and so on), most people will browse through only the fresh content on your mobile website. All images should be small and should be in either.jpeg or.gif format. Feature Fresh Content Prominently.

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Mobile Websites Design Practice 233

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

Google Gmail. The big cloud computing companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Apple have formed a consortium with the nonprofit American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in signing a letter to the Obama administration (PDF) urging for greater transparency.

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News Technology gMail Haiti 62

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Poll your constituency to see what they are already listening to to find themes that are appealing etc. Blogging - if you blog about your sessions it helps Google pick it up; also gives people opportunity to comment and talk back. Yahoo has a great embed tool that doesn’t require any flash code, etc. Consider your story.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

This time we’ll report on some climate change news, the TrashOut app, the difference between cloud backup and cloud storage, the heartbleed bug, a green energy innovation in Latin America that works – and another one that doesn’t, and the epic digital inclusion drone wars being waged by Google and Facebook. Recycling.

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Green News Issue Technology 57

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

I have been doing the social media thing for almost 4 years and I took granted that most nonprofits are doing the basics in terms of measuring ROI, but recent polls I presented on Twitter speak otherwise. What websites were your visitors on right before they visited your site [Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace]?

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