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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Change.org and Care2 specialize in social networking focused on causes and online petitions. WiserEarth is for environmentalists.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). The intent of the Red Cross venue is to give visitors a taste of the atmoshpere in disaster areas, how hard it can be to reach a relieve post and thus try to raise commitment to the organisations work.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). We hoped to created more awareness of the need for support for all of those affected by recent disasters. Our key objective was to make a viral splash, to spread dynamic content, to increase donations to the ARC Disaster Relief Fund. How did you implement it?

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. Would you be able to stand up for those scape-goated without cause? Could you illustrate your expertise & readiness regarding housing, nutrition, mobility, or animal care in the face of disaster?

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