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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of my goals for 2011 is to better track the amount of time I spend on social media posting, planning, etc, and measuring that against actual engagement, as measured by: donations (via special source codes) and engagement (comments, reTweets, etc). Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. Knowledge will continue to be an issue as well, whether it is knowledge of the issue or location or knowledge of what is really needed.

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Game Friday: Vocabulary, Poverty, and Meaningful Score Keeping

Museum 2.0

Free Rice is linked to a sister site, poverty.com, which disseminates information about world hunger and other issues. The level, while compelling, isn't as exciting as the score--which is measured in grains of rice. It's not rocket science--just another variation on the "click to donate" phenomena, which has debated value.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

It's one of the hardest things to measure, and it's probably one of the hardest things to do. He ran into Congo. He was there for about a month, and then war in Congo was breaking out. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. It's called Why Congo Matters. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? This post from Marketing Profs gives you a couple tools and techniques for measuring your Twitter presence.

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Interview with Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International

Have Fun - Do Good

The women that we are servicing in Congo, where, if they are lucky, they get $0.20 So, there are lots of tangible results from what we are doing, and that's how we measure our success. We work in countries like Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, among others. That's the story of Women for Women.

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The Mismeasure of War

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our human rights team cares deeply about the issue of truth in human rights reporting. of the report should include an appropriate measure of uncertainty. welcome the authors’ contribution to the ongoing debate about measuring war-related mortality. Tags: IRC mortality human rights Congo HSR warfare.

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