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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In Connecting to Change World , the authors have a diagnostic for measuring the intensity of connections between people in an network. It looks like this: I have introduced to this person, but do not exchange information with them on a regular basis. That is the first step toward building trust of each other’s intentions.

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10 Tips to Jumpstart Your Nonprofit Social Media Plan

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Author: Jordan Viator. Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Our top 10 tips included: Listen - Learn about supporters, hear what they are saying about you and equip yourself with the tools to help do both.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

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“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Gear Up For Giving: Social Media Tutorial Series for Nonprofits

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Author: Jordan Viator. They’ve even compiled this helpful, fun video to provide a quick primer on the subject.

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Active, Advanced or Averse - Nonprofit Change & Social Media

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Author: Jordan Viator. It's easy to buy more stamps and do more direct mail, scary to use a new technique…Please don't tell me it's about a lack of resources. Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post yesterday entitled “ The problem with non ” that has definitely sparked a bit of conversation.

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What's Your Nonprofit's Social Media Measurement Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week when I was Society for New Communications Research conference, I ran into KD Paine , who shared a copy of an ebook by Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? Analytics and Measurement Techniques" (free to download).

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Guest Post: Measuring Social Media with Multichannel Integration and Meaningful Metrics

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Author: Jordan Viator. Recently, Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC published an eBook entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It?