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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. Book Tour Sponsors.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from Carmello. "Measuring ???engagement??? The island is sponsored by Dutch bankers ABN Amro and the Free University of Amsterdam (VUA) and was build by students of the VUA. And, so again, I'm thinking about how does one even begin to measure visitor engagement in a space like this? engagement???

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Fostering Innovation and Enterprise: Thoughts on supporting the sector from #giveandtech

Amy Sample Ward

As a recent MIT study showed, communities were better able to align aid with those that needed it than objective measures were to assigning that same support, and they felt far better about it. But so often, supports (whether financial supporters or other sponsors/partners) overlook the power their endorsement carries.

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Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lendingmemo. Start with a measurable goal. After you think through these questions, create a well defined goal that follows the SMART framework : specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. Your goal aligns your team and supporters with your crowdfunding campaign. Rethink Rewards and Donation Tiers.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. With specific social media campaigns, it is easier to have specific goals and measure whether or not you met them with the time allotted.

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Everyday Technology: Innovative Ways To Do More With Less

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Nielio. As one of Minnesota’s eight volunteer centers, Community Thread connects people with volunteer opportunities, provides volunteer support to other nonprofits and sponsors large scale opportunities to volunteer. Note from Beth: Innovation was the buzzword at the Nonprofit Technology Conference!

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Hello, Washington Post: Dolllars Per Facebook Donor Is Not the Right Metric for Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. Allison suggests that we're looking at the wrong metric - we should be measuring success using awareness not dollars. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.