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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

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Evaluating Ideas for Fundraising Events When you’re evaluating a potential fundraising event, don’t just look at the potential revenue. A sponsor who provides monetary donations or in-kind donations like services or a venue can be listed on all the marketing materials…banners…bookmarks…t-shirts and so on. Other fun ideas.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. Delicious / Bookmarks. If you use Delicious , the social bookmarking tool, you can view all of your tags and how many items have been bookmarked to each of them.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Caveman92223. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Here's one way you might celebrate. Take Breaks.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Dwinton. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. 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). Did anything surprise you?

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

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If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. A blog may be a place to start. Do you love connecting people? A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents. nonprofit plan social

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Are you impulse adopting tools? Take Breaks.