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5 Tips for Social Media Success from Bok Tower Gardens

NetWits

Nonprofits are taking advantage of this technology; according to the Nonprofit Social Networking Survey by NTEN, Common Knowledge & Blackbaud, the average nonprofit’s fan or follower base grew by 30 percent on Facebook and 81 percent on Twitter in 2011. They have 1500 Twitter followers and tweet daily. Point 4 above is crucial.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It was delivered in two sessions.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. Any advice about using Google Wave? look here ).

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

When asked what nonprofit organizations can do to build relationships with media, the panelists provided sage advice. Neel also suggested, “Use data that comes out of a poll and use it to build a series on a subject, such as the social determinants of health.” “The story is the starting point to create the conversations,” Chan added.

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog. Chris likened Twitter to a Chinese proverb about ???Seeing

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Optimizing Your Site for Social Media Visitors

NTEN

Adding social content, supporters, and features to your site makes socially sourced visitors feel more at home, and introduces all your visitors to their peers -- your supporters, their thoughts, advice, opinions, insights, needs, recommendations, and ratings. Long before Facebook, there was Geocities, which failed.

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What's your most important nonprofit technology New Year’s resolution?

Connection Cafe

And to help capture all the great insight the nonprofit community has in store with its resolutions, we’ve also created a poll to capture your ideas on how to make technology work for you and your organization in 2009. This guide will provide helpful advice, tips and success stories that can better help you keep your 2009 resolutions.