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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.),

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Six Considerations for Long-term Tech Planning from CTOs

NTEN

flickr: dnnya17 A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. Editor’s note: Here at NTEN, we recommend you send them a copy of the NTEN Change Journal.]

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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. Social Change Behind the Firewall. Twitter Demographics.

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33 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits was released in August 2011 and despite the rapid change occurring on the Social and Mobile Web, 90% of the content still rings true. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly.

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22 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. The Facebook algorithim has changed significantly since the release of Social Media for Social Good. Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.