Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

I pulled these metrics from a tool called Postrank that uses a model called the " 5 C's of Engagement " in some email back and forth with Melanie Baker, the community manager for Post Rank, Sue Waters and I asked her if she could unpack the 5s a bit further and tell us a little bit about how it worked.  Should also note, re.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment.

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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. Lee Romero has posted a nice guide to using wikis to support his Idealist group's work. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. When we allow visitors to add their own bits to exhibit labels or react on the web, we often ask them to add their name. But this goes both ways.

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MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Egg Timer: Track your time, because working on social media can give you ADOLAS : AD - Oh Look, A Squirrel! Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm going to give a very brief overview (15-20 minutes at most) that will serve as a conversation starter for small group work. I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. Intent/Action: What is the most important goal or outcome of your organization, work, or business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Traditional offline/online fundraising techniques still, of course, work. Geekcorps Mali works to create and deploy ICT solutions that are sustainable and appropriate for Mali. Web Office A Web Office Toolkit is a list of tools you might use if you moved all your work to web-based applications.

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