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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

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I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects.

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

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Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? Postrank will show you who they are on the top 20 social networks. Daniel Brigida who heads up their social media likes to use Greasemonkey script. Do you know who they are? AddThis or ShareThis.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in.

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The Perils of Popularity

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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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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Free Ranger Rick

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social networking sites. Ivan Boothe from Genocide Intervention Network points out that Facebook's policy is because it wants to be user-centric versus group centric. Eric Eckle suggests that this points to some larger organizational issues in embracing social networking sites.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

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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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