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Should You Quantify Love? Redux 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1) Intangibles often come in the form of stories or anecdotes about the technology value and if used along with numbers can help make the case. The discussion around trying to quantify it - can lead to productive conversation about why the technology is important to mission.

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What color is the social web?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. many have professional day jobs as attorneys, accountants and technology workers???find Blogs Help Drive Jena Protest. it just doesn't depend on them, bloggers say.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. Here's a roundup of all the live blog posts from the recent BlogHer conference neatly organized by session. There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Blackbaud, Inc.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. Mobile technology is more popular in the Philippines and we are looking into how we could use this platform. The Case Study.

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Connecting Metrics to Action.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. I asked a BlogHer personal branding session whether it was important to narrowly focus your topic to build audience. If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran. Are blog metrics all about traffic? After all, if no one is reading the blog, there isn't much point to writing it.

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