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RESULTS: An Acronym For Nonprofit Success

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So here’s why reflecting on the acronym “RESULTS” is so worthwhile in our efforts to achieve nonprofit success! Keep an eye on nonprofit blogs and bookmark pages that offer new perspectives. . See if you can at least find ten minutes a day to find new programs, articles or authors.

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Reflections on Guest Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. and tweeted these myself as well as ask the author to retweet with the unique URL. (See To keep a consistent publishing schedule. To hold steady with RSS subscribers and visitors.

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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More recent books on these methods include Gamestorming by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo and Visual Meetings by David Sibbet (I took David Sibbet’s workshop on visual meeting facilitation and wrote up some reflections here.). Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

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"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog. The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes. Object Based Social Sharing VS Social Graph Sharing : Objects are things like photos, bookmarks, slide decks, or in the case of Quora, questions.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. If you have a group blog, are there differences between authors? Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively).

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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also another blog post about this from E Kim - not tagged with "nptech" but as I pointed out the author doesn't necessarily have the tag the post. Anyone can tag it and add it to their social bookmarking account and get it into the tag stream. Here's Marnie's reflections from an earlier look at the NpTech Tag.