Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Photo by Stephanie McAuliffe. Some are calling it impact investing. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. There is also a detailed taxonomy for types of social media conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

Photo by 3E by found via FlickrLeech Britt Bravo encourages us to step away from the computer this Thanksgiving. The article offers some clear explanations of taxonomies and folksonomies, but goes on to give many reasons why you should dislike folksonomies. Happy Thanksgiving!

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