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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Déjà Vu All Over Again Web 2.0 in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Don't use the same thinking, structures, or processes as you did with Web 1.0. Silo Syndrome And just like with Web 1.0, The Illusion of Control Web 1.0 If you want to succeed using Web 2.0, Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter?

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Community Matters, Even at SxSW

Forum One

But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. Even if you have the most awesome web site, campaign, or cause out there, you need a thoughtful and dedicated community behind it in order for it to be successful. Some may exist solely online.

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Step Up to AI, But Tread Lightly

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Influencers are found, partnerships bloom, social media conquered, marketers consume. Should we believe the hype? Keep the limitations of that structure in mind. Often copywriting, campaign planning, media buying, and web management are all assigned to the same over-extended staffer. Is ChatGPT’s style a little stiff?

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Raise More Money: Incentive-Based Fundraising 101

NonProfit Hub

Incentives are motivators that influence your donors to give and influence your fundraising teams to raise more. We’ve broken it down into two sections: The Social Influence Factor. The Social Influence Factor. As such, these individuals can hold more influence over their networks than your nonprofit. Gamification.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Funnel: Measure the whole funnel!

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. While it may be obvious that programmatic strategy – decisions that affect your coworkers, your volunteers, or your organization's mission – shouldn't be based on "snap judgments", it's incredibly hard to make the human mind work any other way.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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