Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. James shares his reflections on testing the tool: I??? I remember that term!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The Official FAQ: How Does Google Analytics Help Me ? Test three times and if doesn't lead to action, you are wasting your time! Our resource centers (like the Nonprofit FAQ, HR Resource Center, etc.) Stats are better for long term trends or very short events (like measuring a "digg effect" or getting Tech Crunched).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

There's a specific FAQ for artists that explains not only how to upload art, but what's going to happen to it. The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.) Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

For example, they sent out a test to people interested in Causes relating to animals, pointing members to a specific event underway. I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

A week before Canada Day (July 1) we built and tested a simple site that encouraged donors to “buy their country a beer” — basically making a donation. We tested it a lot. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Have an FAQ–and update it. How it worked. We set the right kinds of goals up front.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” 84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content.

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