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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

Tech Soup

Although I think getting just "likes" is not a great metric, it's better than no interaction at all. Feel free to remix, modify, and share this exercise. If some get a lot of likes but little sharing and comments, why is that? This exercise helps point out how the different types of posts are received.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The SXSW Interactive Festival. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Learn the secrets of social media, interactive technology, and grassroots support. Come to this session and find out!

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest

Connection Cafe

It’s less than 24 hours until the masses start filling the Austin Convention Center for one of the biggest and best Interactive conferences of the year: South By Southwest. Beaconfire Consulting will be hosting the “Lounge with a Conscience” throughout the Interactive festival. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was networking weaving between the offline/online. I think of those online communities as social media because it was all about conversation, getting to know people, and interacting. But not many people to share with or remix. I also discovered the gopher! I was a self-described gopher mistress. reflector surfing??? -

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Creating Your Organization's Social Media Strategy Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Build Relationships and Issues Awareness: You’re interacting with key audiences on the social media channel in order to build awareness for your organization's brand. You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. by Beth Kanter.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. More than $550,000 was raised last March. . Click at the Heartstrings.