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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

If you work for the Red Cross, as an example, you can search in Causes for “red cross&# and find groups that are focused on the Red Cross but also those focused on specific disaster relief efforts and international projects. Social Actions is an aggregator of 50+ social action-related sources across the web.

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Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action

NTEN

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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If your organization tweets it, will they donate?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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ROI (Results on Insights): Nonprofit Examples of How Listening Returns Value

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 World Institute.

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Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content

NTEN

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.

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