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New Report: 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report

NTEN

The 2011 NTC saw the release of the latest " Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report ". > Download the 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report More than 11,000 nonprofit professionals filled out this year's survey, sponsored by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and Blackbaud, generating a veritable cornucopia of data. >

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Thoughts on The Social Network (and Why We Need to Pay Attention)

NTEN

Mark Zuckerberg Never Dresses Appropriately for the Weather might be a more accurate title for The Social Network. The Social Network as a title lets us assume the movie is about Facebook, which it isn’t. Maybe the makers of The Social Network just don’t get Facebook. .

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

NTEN

Causes and associations provide status updates on the networks, post links, publish content via tools like Facebook Notes, groups on Linked In and Facebook, and ask questions on all of the services. Yet, while the social networks hold tremendous benefit for nonprofits that successfully engage their stakeholders, there are also dangers.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

NTEN

Greater generational differences appear when it comes to reasons for social networking and selecting virtual destinations. Users ages 18 to 24 are primarily headed to sites focused on nightlife, professional wrestling, comics and animation, and Generation Xers represent the greatest users of online banking.

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Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Facebook: Is it Worth your Nonprofit’s Time?

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Bottom line – nonprofits are having some success in connecting with new constituents and generating action, but the social network works best when requiring a low level of commitment. Like other studies have noted, social networks like Facebook are not raising much money. hours per week on the social network.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

NTEN

A challenge of our time seems to be building networks of quantity while creating/generating quality from the networks. Online networks have transferred the tools of organizing and programmatic leadership from organizations and placed them into the hands of the citizen/member.