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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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Marc A. Smith on Social Mapping for Network Growth

Tech Soup

Along with an international team at the Social Media Research Foundation , they've developed NodeXL , which turns invisible networks and connections into spreadsheets and graphs. What is social network analysis? View a recording of the stream. Smith's slides from this presentation. View Marc A.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. Remember, it's not the level , but whether it is a match to your audience.

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. Rashmi called this "just a social graph" (or just a social network). A community tag stream. Is social networking doomed?

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Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

NTEN

The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. This was one of our most interactive webinars - it was filled with community organizers, after all - the Twitter stream and chat channel were delightfully out of control! Check out the event Storify Praan put together.

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Many Uses of FriendFeed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those of you who are wondering what the heck is an ignite presentation, it is a style of presenting where the speaker has 20 slides, mostly visual, and spends no more than 20 seconds explaining each one. I use FriendFeed to follow a group of people in more depth because I can see their complete social media activity in one place.

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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. 1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them.