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Social Networks for Social Change: Ivan Boothe Knows What He Is Talking About!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For instance, when we first started organizing on Facebook in 2005, we found many existing groups on campuses working to end the genocide in Darfur. Ivan notes, " Social networking is a long-term approach and using traditional metrics of advocacy or fundraising it may not look like much.

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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

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why do people give charity?

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Hollywood celebrities have become central players on deeply political issues like development aid, refugees and government-sponsored violence in Darfur. For Good, Measure This article is about how foundations have found Jesus in metrics.

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur. The most obvious metric is video view counts. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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Insiders Guide to Video and YouTube for Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

One example is 24HoursforDarfur who has collected over 800 videos from celebrities, elected officials, and citizens urging Congress to do more about the genocide in Darfur. The most obvious metric is video view counts. There are some great examples of nonprofits that are doing an excellent job with online video.

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

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The Exploratorium did the solar eclipse, and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum is doing all kinds of programs around Darfur. There are some obvious metrics—how much time to people spend coming there, can you convert those people to visitors to the real museum—but I assume you’d look larger than that. What’s the mission of the museum?

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Tools Galore in Online Communication - Women Who Tech 2009

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USHMM : Crisis in Darfur - Visualized destruction in Darfur that was being publicly refuted - 50% increase in traffic to site - International visits went from 23-52%. More examples can be found on the Google Earth Outreach page of nonprofit case studies.).