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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up in a small town by the New Jersey shore in a house a block from the Atlantic Ocean that my elderly parents still live in today. With Hurricane threatening a direct hit and potential devastating damage, emergency officials called for a mandatory evacuation — something that hasn’t happened in many years.

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An Interview with Perla Ni, CEO and Founder of Great Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When Hurricane Katrina hit, I was the publisher of the Stanford Social Innovation Review , and we wanted to write a story about how nonprofits were helping the victims. I'm very lucky to be able to structure my work around my lifestyle. Perla Ni, Ceo and Founder of Great Nonprofits 1. Why did you start Great Nonprofits ?

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. ” And while she used the term “crisis communications,” she said it was a good crisis.

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Solutionary Women: Katya Andresen

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I enjoyed the book so much I asked her if I could interview her about her work at Network for Good, her book and being a social marketer. We have a business plan that has us on track to operate without philanthropic support within a couple of years, and everyone in our office is paid on a bonus structure. And that’s about it.

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You’ll recall this interview , and this post , and this one. and those Structural adjustment plans had very harsh yet actually superficial theoretical ways of wanting to solve this – and never did) And unfortunately $1.50 When afterwilma debuted, I like many others felt an affinity to the people afflicted by the hurricane.

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