Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). But all is not well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Will it be another RSS feed? One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. The more types of updates you mix in the more interesting the feed becomes. Decide what you want to accomplish with this account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I'm continuing with this informal research of the nonprofit blogosphere by pretending to be Terry Gross and conducting "Bloggerviews." " In previous weeks, I interviewed nonprofits who have jumped into the blogosphere trenches feet first. Why do you think a nonprofit organization should consider having a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments. Update: There's been a lot of discussion lately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! " What about out-bound and in-bound links?

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