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Zoetica Salon Insights: Social Media Measurement for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for peer knowledge sharing, but we hope to distinguish it from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls. We launched the Zoetica Salon this week. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior.

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Curiosity-Driven, Not Data-Driven

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by epsos.de. Eric Peterson calls out a discussion on “What the C-suite should know about analytics” from Kishore Swaminathan, Accenture’s chief scientist: “Data is a double-edged sword. I saw an interesting post from Eric Petersen called “ The Myth of Data-Driven Business &# by way of KD Paine’s blog.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. We include everything from industry trends to fundraising numbers based on web analytics. Interaction (are people sharing our content?

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Member Round Up: Summer Learning!

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flickr: adwriter Without year-end fundrasing campaigns to plan for (yet), and just after conference season, summer is usually the time when things slow down for all of us. You can add the resources in your neck of the woods, which means with all of our combined knowledge, it only gets better. The best part about it?

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NTEN Members Online Round-Up: We're Back in Action, and So Are You!

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Flickr: gareth1953 As you know, this Spring has seen some new faces at NTEN – including mine! One of the biggest traits of the nonprofit technology sector is a willingness to share experiences and knowledge. During the transition, one thing has fallen from the blog: the regular member round-up. Well, don't fret!

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Get Your Social Media Strategy in Shape With Spreadsheet Aerobics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. For example, open-ended questions work, particularly those that allow people to share their knowledge or ones accompanying a good resource link. If you have put on running shoes for the first time, do you think you can really expect to win the Boston Marathon?