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Hello, Washington Post: Dolllars Per Facebook Donor Is Not the Right Metric for Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At that time the Facebook Causes was only two months old and in their conclusion they pointed out that fundraising on social networks was not a silver bullet and that it takes time. . Steve MacLaughlin points out "If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.

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Mapping Your Online/Offline Activism: Surfrider Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort. Learning across the network, particularly across chapters is important. How do you facilitate the hive?

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ). This book will give you a way to be more intentional about your social media work and improve it.

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Learning and Listening Loops: What is Micro Planning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI. I've written endlessly about the techniques of listening, metrics, reflection and reiteration.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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5 Online Communication Styles for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After your nonprofit has crafted a content strategy and created an editorial calendar (Chapter 7), the next step is to start thinking about the tone of voice of your content. To engage effectively is to respond genuinely to questions and comments and facilitate the discussions that your followers are having with each other. Engagement.