Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? Metrics At least the survey did not proclaim that lack of impressive dollar amounts raised as a failure of nonprofits using social networks. Respondents indicated that they used number of members and the amount of user-generated content, with fundraising was a lowest ranked metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

General conclusion: culture shift before tech adoption, keep it simple, small steps, and focused on real needs. (It Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

. #1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools. Concerns about adopting social media will no doubt arise. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. And, maybe this is only of concern to relatively small number of early adopters in the nonprofit sector. Identify what you key success metric is.

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