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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, let's unleash the NpTech Mashup Meme. One thing he spoke about was mashups with content from other sources, the ability to make "playlists" of tools, and some collaborative filtering or "digg like" features. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups. Thankfully there???s

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The Lurker to Contributor Ratio: Tagging Communities Compared To Other Online Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

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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

PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Let the Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. It's created a line of hardware (ultra low-power computers) and open source software turnkey solutions and installation and support services. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering.

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You don’t want to create an extra program or extra work, it has to support your existing marketing goals. But even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others (which takes more time) (15-20 per week depending on the type of content, number of different ways you're creating it, and skill).

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Think of it like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats. The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Be proactive.