Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. It's basically Techmeme or Google News for Twitter, but for all popular links shared in a given day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

Pete Cashmore, in an article on CNN, explains that this lays the ground work for social search. Robert Scoble offers detailed meta analysis of the implications from a technical, marketing, and individual user perspective. There are some user personal privacy issues and PC Mag has a good analysis here. This has now changed.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. People think that real time is just Twitter and sure enough, some of the search engines put Twitter search front and center. Few search only Twitter, though - there are only about 3 million links shared on Twitter each day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Each type dictates a different process and therefore requires different measurement and analysis methods. Does the input aggregated allow you to move forward on a project or move forward in a new direction? There are three main types of crowdsourcing: Work, Input and Action. Measuring Work. Does it help you solve a problem?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

We spent time looking at common homepage elements, responsive web design, top navigation items, calls to action, social media branding, and search engine optimization (SEO) keywords & common practices. In certain areas, we extended our analysis by segmenting the data by school type and size. Also, did I mention our report is free?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. There is a usefulness for a formal taxonomy or making it easy to find specific items, particularly for second wave adopters who may not be good at pattern analysis skills or people who can deal with messier data.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Then, your "data library" can be sorted, searched, and filtered just like your publication library. Make it portable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

A quick analysis of the types (create a visual with mindmanager - concentric circles? " This is an aggregation of the above. Also, tagging mashed with search - for example, healthcare information in Google by Enoch Choi. 2005) Tagging 101 , Personal Aggregation -- article that summarizes key points. TechSoup Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. Also, how to focus the stream a bit more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable. And, certainly, it's help me as a news feed to keep abreast of the flow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I'm not sure if Christine obsesses about her technorati rating, but she sure does care about blog search widgets and has found something even better than the technorati widget. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. Why nothing about social aggregators ? for his blog. Does it matter to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. Google Blog Search. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. So, if your nonprofit web site has complex tracking and analysis needs, you may need to work with a specialist consultant to set up your account and train staff to use it.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not only can users narrow down their search to the district level, they can then choose from various impact metrics to better understand specific factors, behaviors, outcomes, etc. It includes those who understand data well (researchers), and others who are likely less familiar with complex data analysis tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

Where do nonprofit leaders, managers, volunteers, donors, and other stakeholders go when searching for information pertinent to their roles? I am not talking here about aggregators of information. I believe that more " content curators " will need to surface to muffle the overwhelming informational noise. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Chad graciously agreed to write up a guest post — and start a meme asking nonprofit and social media folks to add their favorite social media tactic in the comments below or using the hashtag #50smt and aggregated here. Do an analysis to improve or create content. I’m aggregating the Tweets for #50smt here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. They’ve had to do this conversion because there has been no comprehensive set of open data about the nonprofit sector available to them or the many others who would take advantage of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. But that would be a lot of content! Take your pick!

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. Message in A Box : Search Engine Optimization.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. Companies that I never heard of like Acxiom , Epsilon , and Experian aggregate dossiers on us, package it up and sell it to advertisers.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip). Actually, the twitter API only returns the last 1500 (I scrolled back as far as I could from the search tool). Geotagging Photos.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

It's only when all those little chunks are aggregated that they turn into Big Data; then the software called analytics can scour it for patterns. Facebook Insights is an analysis tool that lets you see how your Facebook activities are working. I like Search Engine Watch’s Twitter Analytics: A Beginner's Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. " People who subscribe via RSS or email are making a commitment a level of above those clicking over from a google search or referral. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. One recent project is a real-time analysis and data visualization of the post2015 conversation on Twitter.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.)

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