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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success? Tammi Marcoullier, Lead Strategist at the GSA’s Center for Excellence in Digital Government Engagement & Outreach. Simply Measured.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

During the polar vortex winter 2014, telework has done some unexpected things like keeping federal government services open for business during one of the really bad snow storms. New productivity measurement tools like MySammy measures a teleworker’s productivity level each day. Additional Resources.

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Doing More by Doing Less

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. We could empty the coffers of all the foundations in the United States but still couldn’t offset the cuts from the federal government alone. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Less restrictive funding. Less onerous reporting requirements.

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Curiosity-Driven, Not Data-Driven

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by epsos.de. Eric says that the term being “driven” implies — “going out of your way to devalue experience, ignore process, and eschew established governance in favor of a new, entirely metrics-powered approach towards decision making. &#. He suggests a new term, “data informed.&#.

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Catching the Wave: Social Media and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). Yesterday I wrote about social media and governance describing some ideas about how social media might be valuabe as part of the governance process. The first step, of course, is education.

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Social Media Gurus Offer Their Predictions for 2009: A Few That Might Resonate With Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remix of Mstephen's Flickr Photo. Charlene Li predicts that "Obama-maniacs will spawn a new age of activism." She goes to explain: The millions of online-activated volunteers in the Obama campaign will find the drudgery of governing unappealing and abandon Obama's citizen government movement. It's that time of year again.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

what things need to be measured. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. Nonprofit staff are so overwhelmed, how many groups have someone to measure social media? Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating.