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

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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. Community/Fun Events are great for corporate sponsors , too. Because these events often attract the community at large, the right sponsors are usually happy to participate.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). Why? Did anything surprise you?

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. I like to track the data, but also think about what it means for nonprofits. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Eight Secrets of Social Networking for Nonprofits.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. It's a taken a long time but I bet there's enough data in the nptech tag on a combination of bookmarking systems to do a little crunching and get at some of those commonly used terms.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! s experience (good and bad) with social bookmarking, the NTEN Affinity Group , NpTagvocates, is a great place for discussion with your peers on these topics. sharpie.???