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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You know your first step is listening, but before you jump into a river of conversations and keywords and even before you touch the tools, you need to be ready to listen. Finally, you'll need to start to engage with your network and have a conversation. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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Birthday Campaign Reflection: Will Your Nonprofit Embrace Free Agent Fundraisers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On an organizational level, incorporating this approach may be easy or hard depending your organization's culture. Conversational Fundraising, Not Asking: Twitter is great for "viral spreading of your message" and is useful for donor acquisition. Creating a Culture of Giving in Your Network This is my 7th personal fundraising campaign.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? Can the conversion be accomplished with minimum resources? Additional Links.

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Guest Post: Hashtags Are Like #Snowflakes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

and use a tool like rowfeeder to capture the hashtag stream into a spreadsheet to analyze. You’ll can do some comparison testing of different calls to action and then refine what you’re doing. Just a small pilot, a little bit a data, and linked to decision-making can help your tweets have more impact. Are they reliable?

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? So a couple samples here this is from Charity Water.

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Steve Bridger

Conversation is the key, and we’re starting to give our supporters individual voices to hear while at the same time getting to know them. Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 10:32 am | Permalink Amy Sample Ward wrote: Great list, Steve! Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink Laura Whitehead wrote: Thanks for sharing!

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