Thursday, July 08, 2010

Top Five Tools for Listening on the Social�Web - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Top Five Tools for Listening on the Social�Web - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop: "f your nonprofit wants to start engaging in online conversations, first you need to start by listening to what people are saying about your organization and the issues you work on. You will want to analyze the competition too. Here are some of my favorite online listening and analytics tools."

Harnessing the Power of Social Media Leaders: MPI’s Social Media Guru Program – Engage365

Harnessing the Power of Social Media Leaders: MPI’s Social Media Guru Program – Engage365: "MPI’s Social Media Guru Search

MPI made their Social Media Guru application available on the WEC Event Page for Social Media. They promoted the offer mainly through Twitter, which makes sense since they were looking for someone who is probably already established and active on social media sites. The application included questions about social media awareness and activities (Twitter, Facebook, blogs, websites, Foursquare, etc.). They asked applicants to describe their levels of participation in and the main use for each outlet. In the end, they chose five people with a wide range of experience and different backgrounds."

Study: Minorities leading in mobile web usage; helping close digital divide | ZDNet

Study: Minorities leading in mobile web usage; helping close digital divide | ZDNet: "In an interesting look at the usage of mobile web among Americans, a study by the Pew Internet and American Life project (PDF) found that both African-Americans and English-speaking Hispanics are the leading users of the mobile web connection on a phone."

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Staying Engaged With Your Nonprofit Social Media Communities : Page 1 of 2 : FundRaising Success

Staying Engaged With Your Nonprofit Social Media Communities : Page 1 of 2 : FundRaising Success: "Once I got my computer back and stopped twitching, I thought back on why exactly my inability to be as “connected” as I’m accustomed to was so frustrating for me. I realized it was the online communities and supporter relationships I was concerned about damaging. It wasn’t the inconvenience of not being able to perform my normal day-to-day tasks that bothered me (although that was frustrating). I’ve got a system to respond and monitor community discussions and comments regarding organizations I work with down to a science, and I’ve worked hard to make it efficient. Without my tools, my system gets more complicated and speed of response is left wanting."

The Limits Of Calculating Social Media ROI

The Limits Of Calculating Social Media ROI

Saratoga County nonprofits find funds through social networking sites - The Saratogian News: Serving the Saratoga Springs, N.Y. region (Saratogian.com)

Saratoga County nonprofits find funds through social networking sites - The Saratogian News: Serving the Saratoga Springs, N.Y. region (Saratogian.com): "Nonprofit organizations are no exception to the growing use of social networking in the workplace.

The Saratoga Hospital Foundation, for example, started a hospital-wide Twitter feed in February and just joined Facebook."

Roundup for June 2010 � Nonprofit Blog Exchange

A variety of material from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange now on Wordpress

Roundup for June 2010 � Nonprofit Blog Exchange: "Roundup for June 2010

June 30, 2010

Website Management

Your website should should be organized to make it easy for visitors to your site to find what they are looking for. Learn about menus, site maps, and search boxes at Your Website Backbone on the blog for Internet & Media Strategies.

Facebook and Twitter

Social Media Case Study: Facebook plus integrated marketing helps raise $950,000 (AH&A’s Industry Voices)"

Nonprofit Blogging - Curation Cures Nonprofit Blogging

Nonprofit Blogging - Curation Cures Nonprofit Blogging: "One of the first questions that nonprofits have about setting up a blog for their supporters is: 'What do we write about?'

It's a good question, and many nonprofits never get the answer right. Their blogs turn into self-referencing organizational messages that most people, even their supporters, tune out"