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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. Social networking matters.

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Meetup Recap: Jen Burton from Causes on Fundraising and Online Communities

Tech Soup

Strengths of the Causes Network. Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. The Open Graph integration creates a Facebook Fan Page for all new causes, and integrates analytics. You can also go to our application homepage. I was most recently at Digg.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here‘s what worked: We built analytics into the process. We used bit.ly (to track viral spread), Google Analytics (for goal conversions), Paypal audit accounts (to see donation amounts) and Clicky (for real-time web analytics.) Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Define analytics goals better.

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