article thumbnail

Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

2)LinkedIn , the professional networking site that often seems like little more than a sharable rolodex, has an announcement of its own. that allows outside developers to weave their own programs into its site. " that allows outside developers to weave their own programs into its site. "

article thumbnail

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.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

Digg 50
article thumbnail

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Traffic: Suggests partnering with the web team and using analytics software to track the referrals of unique visitors to site from a site. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Simplified ROI Process: It sort reads like logic model to me.

Public 50
article thumbnail

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. Additionally, PostRanks are calculated one of two ways, either comparing a site's content against its own past performance only (feed-based PostRank). by Don Bartholomew I'm noodling around with a couple of ideas so this post does a lot musing.   

Metrics 71
article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. "Put it this way, if you have a quote from Bill Clinton on your site, you are probably not hurting for publicity!" Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). " Greenpeace UK is about to launch a new drupal site.

NTC 50