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Blogging for nonprofit: IRC’s WASH Blogs

If you use WASH as a noun, rather than a verb, you gotta be working in the humanitarian field. WASH stands for “WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene”, one of the key sectors in the field of aid and development.
As with any nonprofit area, advocacy, information dissemination and project discussions are key to the WASH sector, so [...]

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Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius

An interesting slide set by social media guru Beth Kanter, showing how social media can be used as a marketing tool – specifically for non-profit organisations.
Some of the slides contain details you will only see when watching the slide show in full screen (click on the menu icon – Choose “Full screen”)..

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The biggest list of nonprofit blogs just got bigger

With the help several people, I spend a lot of time collecting and updating my list of nonprofit blogs, which I publish on my Delicious list. Over the past months, this list grew to 549 blogs.

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The social media map. Literally.

Image courtesy xkcd (Hires here)

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Do Nonprofits Embrace Social Media?

Social Impact conducted an interesting survey of 200 nonprofit executives to explore how their organizations are using social media and the value they derive from these efforts.
They summarized their key results as:

88% percent of nonprofits are widely experimenting with social media, but only half (51%) are active users.
79% are uncertain of how to demonstrate social [...]

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Evidence of the social media revolution

In case you still needed convincing social media is not a trend, but a revolution:

There are over 200,000,000 blogs in the world and 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily.
It took Radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. TV did better: 13 years, the Internet 4 Years and iPod 3 Years. Facebook on the other [...]

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Analyzing 200 nonprofit blogs

I took advantage of the long weekend here in Rome to do a major redesign of the back end engines in my network of blogs and social media tools.
Over the past two years, I have collected over 300 sites which cover aid and humanitarian issues, development and philanthropy, advocacy and “social media for a cause”. [...]

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The Twitter demographic statistics

When Sysomos, a social media research company, analyzed information about 11.5 million Twitters accounts, the results could not be but amazing and relevant:

Twitter only picked up in the last six months: 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009.
Most Twitter users seem to be either just ‘listening’ or are inactive: 85.3% [...]

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Social Media and the Iran Protests

Iran held their presidential elections on Friday June 12. Late that evening, the current President Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His rival Mousavi called the results a “charade” and on June 13, thousands of protesters took to the street.
That Saturday June 13, I was sitting in Rome, Italy. Thousands of miles away from Tehran. I [...]

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Social media in your organisation

Three interesting slide sets on social media, social enterprise systems and knowledge management. Even though they are made by a commercial company (T-Systems), they provide some interesting visuals and ideas:

The Wikipedia Myth – Enterprise 2.0 Knowledge Management

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Top social media sites

TechCrunch posted an excellent overview of the top social media sites based on monthly visitors.

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