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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. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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An Interview With Dr. Lynda Kelly, Australian Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She also just set up a social networking site on Ning where museum professionals are discussing the future of museums in a Web 2.0 We took Forrester's technographics research model and adapted it for Australia, surveying over 2,000 people from Australia. The site is called Museum 3.0. Tell me about your research?

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

There are plenty of options ( Google Sites , Ning , and GroupSite , to name a few) that allow you to host discussions and share documents with groups of people relatively easily. Forum One's own Online Community Research Network regularly publishes results of surveys from online community managers about community platforms.

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Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii - Live Blogging Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leveraging Communities Has set up a Ning.  Conversions Measured this with a survey - after watching beachwalks - desire more or less to visit.  More and better interaction With podcasting you can also have subscribers, cmments, cross-postings, episode ratings, community chats, and mashups and more.

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Thoughts on Social Networking

Connection Cafe

The survey asked about two types of social networking presences a nonprofit organization could have. The first type is "commercial" which the survey has defined as external to your organization, like Facebook or Twitter. Of those surveyed, 85% said they had $10K or less in budget for social networking presence.