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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter. If your nonprofit’s objective is to gain a lot of followers on Twitter, then you should follow on a 1:1 ratio.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Soyignatius. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. ” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for.

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The Overhead Question: What's Our Role?

NTEN

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for.

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If you were stuck on a desert island, and could only follow 150 people on Twitter, who would you follow and why?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Minifig If you're thinking about how to streamline using Twitter, Vladis Krebs offers excellent advice in " So Many People, So Little Time." He recommends using social network theory to design your Twitter following strategy. Following = people whose Tweets you read.) It boils down to following the few to find the many!

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted.

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2007: New Year's Technology Resolutions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. To really master the art of screencasting and to get my 1 hour to 1 minute video editing ratio lower. It probably means to slow down and not try to do so much at such a frenetic pace. But maybe I can be fast and neater?