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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time. Did anything surprise you? Are there any patterns? .

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

Have Fun - Do Good

WordPress , Blogger ) Podcast (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Based on your goal for using social media, how will you measure your impact? Libsyn , Hipcast ) Video sharing (i.e. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Flickr, Photobucket ) Microblogging: Twitter , Tumblr Social networking (i.e.

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Digital Life Hacks: Savvy Social Media

Connection Cafe

WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Pinterest and Flipboard are for bookmarking and content sharing. So, think about how you can communicate impact and add value to your conversations on social. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. Economic Impacts. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Add the bookmarklet so you can easily save bookmarks into delicious. Here's a screencast to show you how. Flickr Farm.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

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What are the best metrics to use to measure ROI and improve your blog's content?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Brogan recently provided some insights about bookmarked blog posts and how they can help increase traffic. And notice that he doesn't just take a list of most bookmarked content, that's only the first step. Bookmarked saves for value of content. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics can give you these numbers easily.

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