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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. It got 189 diggs.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. The proposed call agenda is here. January 12, 2007. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you're raising money for nonprofit, remember that you are an ambassador the cause and what you say and do reflects the organization. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog. Is there a formula or set of sharper reflection questions? Should also note, re. because they're nowhere near what just one post got.

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NpTech Conference Call Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. still thinking outloud. A key value of following the NpTech Tag stream, even though it is undifferiented is for finding or identifying patterns.

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The NpTech Mashup Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing he spoke about was mashups with content from other sources, the ability to make "playlists" of tools, and some collaborative filtering or "digg like" features. James shares his reflections on testing the tool: I??? I'd love to see some workflows shared too. I remember that term!)

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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm looking forward to reading the reflections next week. There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users.

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