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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The general overview: Friend of A Friend Model: 2002 Let's connect on LinkedIn so we can help each other with referrals. Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity. Water cooler conversations around shared objects.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement. I usually don't get into the carpet fibers about how different analytics tools do the measuring because I don't find it as interesting as the conceptual model AND of course reflecting on what it means for my blog.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Putting the Public Back in PR - New Book from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . This is not new for nonprofit folks - looks like some of the items we track in our logic models - at least short-term outcomes for efficiency and effectiveness. Simplified ROI Process: It sort reads like logic model to me.

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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". “We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” 3) MSNBC meanwhile ran a report that it had purchased social news site Newsvine.

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Business 2.0 looks at The Next Net

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. For example, Newsvine is a read-write news site with a revenue sharing model for its members. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms.