NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I am happy to say the Embracing Social Media presentation was well attended (standing room only!) and we had some great questions and insights from audience members. The slides and video from the presentation can be found below. If you are a regular reader of this blog you have seen this video before. Tags: Education and Training Tools #arc09 achieva arc of greater pittsburgh parlerai socialmedia socialnomics the arc of the us.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

YouTube Direct is a a free tool of YouTube that allows you to ask your constituencies to upload videos on your own website. Similar to what many news websites offer, you can ask your webpage viewers to upload their videos. You are able to review the videos before they get posted to your site, so you can catch any spam or any videos that might not meet HIPPA or your professional standards.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Twitter unleashed its lists to the general public last week. You can put people you follow into a list. You can also see who has placed your Twitter feed into a list. John Haydon , a social media nonprofit expert thinks that Twitter lists will positively impact your nonprofit. Lists will completely change how we use Twitter: * Users can follow a list without having to follow all the users on that list. * Third party applications will use lists in fun and interesting ways. * Sites like Listorious

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Here is my top ten list of socialmedia things I am thankful for this year. 10. Many Arc chapters have joined the socialmedia-sphere in 2009. 9. All of the games on Facebook. 8. Open APIs and deals between social media sites. 7. News organizations that continue to use social media even though there isn’t revenue in it. 6. People are still trying to figure out how to raise money through social media. 5.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The 2009 Arc Convention is happening right now in Pittsburgh. If you’re reading this I hope you are here at the convention. I wanted to share a special video with you for this installment for Video Fridays. This is a video from Flame, the band that played at the Opening Dinner. If you’d like to see more of their videos, here is a link to their YouTube page and one for their videos and music files from their website.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Hashtags – what are they? They could be one of your best friends on social media sites and you may not know about them. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

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