Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

Sharing, Engagement, Interaction, Popularity, etc are some of the emerging terms for metrics for social media that are in process of being defined. In between plastering a copy of Hugo's photo ( Nina Simonds ' cat) on Facebook Profile and letting me know that blip.tv is the best engagement metric in this initial stage of Web 2.0

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

Post these videos on your main page as a unique, interactive way to share your nonprofits message. SplashCast Media and Searchles can help you out. If you have profiles on social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook , make sure icons that link to those are on your home page.

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See3

MAY 25, 2007

So, Amazon says, OK, we will create an application that allows people to publish book reviews right on their own Facebook profiles, fully integrated into Facebook, but also back into Amazon. See Marshall Kirkpatrick’s nice overview of this on the SplashCast blog. See TechCrunch coverage here. See Read/Write Web coverage here.

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