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Guest Post on Tactical Philanthropy: Causes, MySpace and ideablob

Amy Sample Ward

“In recent days, Causes has left MySpace and IdeaBlob has shutdown. In reaction to the Causes announcement, Economist bureau chief Matthew Bishop tweeted “Who knew it was on MySpace?” —– There’s something in the wind, other than in-coming winter, that has my attention.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. One of my goals for 2011 is to better track the amount of time I spend on social media posting, planning, etc, and measuring that against actual engagement, as measured by: donations (via special source codes) and engagement (comments, reTweets, etc).

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Taproot Foundation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. Jumo: [link].

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Guest Post by Ali Cherry: Seven Thoughts on Slacktivism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He takes the long view of short attention spans…it’s sometimes hard for people to find the right organizations to volunteer for, and it can be equally hard for organizations to capitalize on the various skills that volunteers bring to the table… But microvolunteerism, Colker says, ‘is perfectly suited for the Millennial Generation.

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Social Networking Tip #2: Establish A Routine and Stick To It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sometimes though, particularly at times when I'm not at peak, I give myself a set amount of time to "discover" or rather engage in Productive rapid attention shifting. There is a fine line between rapid attention shifting and useless bouncing. " Most nonprofit online networkers agree. It is important to be flexible.

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Planned Parenthood Movement Building: Leadership, Engagement, Stories, and Platform for Self-Organizing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They realized quickly it was the wrong approach. " We’ve stopped cramming calls to action down people’s throats because we understand that’s not the culture of MySpace or Facebook or the way social media can be successful. Engagement is not really created by being a nice, genuine, caring and attentive sort of chap on twitter.

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Using Social Networking Sites for Campaigns: An Interview with Carie Lewis, HSUS

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We wanted something different; not just another MySpace profile. This was mostly a myspace campaign. also coordinated and integrated the content and blog postings with our hsus myspace page and rebecca???s We had taken the time to build up a strong following on our hsus myspace page ??? s online journal , without.