Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. Great question. Do you know who they are?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. Junction49 - Junction49 want to challenge the negative perception that young people don't volunteer in traditional ways anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. If ignored, however, it can lead to tears of anguish and people punching their computers. Currently, NWF's top social referrers are the following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. 5 hours per week).

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi illustrates how social networks have and are evolving over the past five years from the perspective of an information architect/interaction designer/cognitive psychologist. Is social networking doomed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. a social searching program called lejit. Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. The existing social searches are simply too big for trust - the information flow to huge and overwhelming. So, this is a little bit raw.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. In 2007 when the platform launched, Causes grew in popularity and awareness as people used their Birthday Wish to raise money for their favorite nonprofit. Over and over again.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Focus on the social channels that work with your brand. When it comes to social, you can’t do it all. Commit only to a certain number of social networks that you’re going to be able to manage well. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. I ran a giveaway of my Pownce invitations to lure -- I mean to encourage -- people to join the group or post on the discussion board. The first six people to leave a comment got the invites. My Flickr Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

How people are making sense of the tag streams. The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. So, rather than have just a few folks filtering the nptech tag stream, to have some way to make the filtering social. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Each blog post is given a score from 1 to 10, representing how interesting and relevant people have found your content. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. Social Media ROI Case Study Slam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

social networking sites. They make it a lot harder to interact with people than MySpace does. Ivan Boothe from Genocide Intervention Network points out that Facebook's policy is because it wants to be user-centric versus group centric. When we first ventured onto Facebook, I created an Oxfam America profile.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

What you see above is a social network analysis I created with Gnomedex schwag (and some pennies I borrowed from Chris Brogan ) to illustrate the type of report I would like to be able to generate automatically. 35% are names of people that I didn't meet at gnomedex, people I know or read my blog - strangers.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! Brian’s big point was that there’s a lot of noise to cut through and to engage people you must deploy quality, focused, niche communications. I suggest another one to explore, Rethos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) It's moved. Philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

One thing I've come to appreciate Twitter is that it allows me read the thoughts, ideas, and musings of lots of smart people and thought leaders in many different disciplines. However, she did point out that there is actually a connection between Einstein and Social Media: Social media is like a FIELD / SPACE where people 'meet'.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Be sure to check it out.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Well report back in a few days.

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Don’t be a lurker. Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

There are two major hurdles that must be overcome for an online community to succeed: the selection of appropriate community (or "social-networking") features that make sense for the community in question, and, secondly, actually implementing those features in your online application. The Kitchen Sink Social Networking Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. However, very few people use these terms precisely and almost nobody agrees on the exact definition of these terms. The 4Cs Social Media Framework. People don’t build relationships with each other in a vacuum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And give those blog posts good technorati tags so people can find them. thank the folks that do the blogging and keep them up-to-date on your progress * engage people in a conversation about the cause * Try to make connections with local college students in your area. use your social network to help you with the campaign.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" You’ll even fail at failing: you will simply go unnoticed. Don’t give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

How many people visit your Web site every day? Some people call this continuous improvement. Those are the people , who presumably, read what I write regularly. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. We are at the heart of a social media and social networking revolution. NEW SEMINAR!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. We are all photographers now , Steve Bridger's excellent post about nonprofits and social web photosharing. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ).

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Here are some quick takeaways to consider: 1) The Ease of Social Sharing is Important. This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network. 2) Search is Still King.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" With Open, nonprofits can see what people are doing, how often and how long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. As part of the activities, people are invited to kick the tires of the new version of Social Source Commons. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Why are people religious about technology? Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? To many people, the culture of Web 2.0 The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Technology isn't supposed to be religious.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use?

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