NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

I came across a great white paper about the use of social media by marketers. Let's explore: First, some context: The survey was conducted in January of this year, and marketers on social networks -- it was kicked off with a Twitter invitation to the survey -- participated. You can download the whole report for free.

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Social Media Lesson Marketing Media 54

NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Chart 1 below shows that the next generation of donors, Gen X and Boomers are truly multi-channel. As you can see in chart one, the channels for giving are broad for the next generations of donor (note that even Matures report giving through many channels, but at 77%, "check by mail" is dominate for Matures).

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Generation NTEN Chart Donor 56

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Make it portable.

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Policy Data Content Share 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The Symposium has several brief white papers about future techologies and education to jump start the discussion: It's Easy To Fall in Love with Technology by Danah Boyd. This is already happening to some nonprofits as a by-product of their participation on social networks and using simplicity. Tags: horizon.

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84