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To What End?

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. My worry is that, too often, we do not root our discussions in the essentials of goals and strategy. Given those goals, what are the best strategies to achieve them?

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Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse

Beth Kanter

Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s PulseGuest Blog by Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Social Media for Nonprofits. How can you make your web footprint work for you and complement your social strategy? 3 – Monitor Social Conversations.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.18.18

Reid All About it

Some quick hits before we get to the list of free webinars: Good advice: how to make your social media feed more interesting. ( How to Use Social Media and Event Technology to Grow your Event Community. Explore the best social media channels that resonate with your community. In a three-part series, rasa.io

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The Capacity-Building Frontier(s)

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. 2) Our grantees’ constituents are on social media. Social media literacy and facility is a 21st century core capacity. (3)

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What Gets Measured Gets Better

Beth Kanter

I spoke to a group of nonprofit in Seattle a few weeks ago at Pyramid Communications who found the advice for taking incremental steps towards improvement very useful. The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. What is the benefit?

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

ChatterBachs

As many of you know, the priority of engaging and connecting is a big one for me- a soapbox- if you will, and I don’t understand those who simply look at social media as a way to promote their agenda, products, and/or services. cagedether - Daryl Pereira; San Francisco; Web and Social Media Manager at IBM.

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Lunchtime Links: How to Capitalize on Member Ideas

Associations Now

One at a time, a single member with passion for a project, aligned with your association’s strategy and resources. Social media gives everyone with a computer the power of influence. Social media allows us to feel and empathize almost by proxy, even if the issues are away from us,” Dixon said.

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