NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Think about it for a second. Amazing stuff. 4) Razoo – [link].

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2012

She spearheaded the successful Take Back the Filter Brita recycling campaign in 2008, and her life and work have been profiled in Susan Freinkel's book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story , in Captain Charles Moore's book, Plastic Ocean , and in the award-winning film, Bag It. You can follow her on Twitter at @PlasticfreeBeth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! I got the impression that someone just scraped this list and send out pitches blinding without, at minimum, clicking through to a Facebook profile. Some of this applies to twitter as well. Saying thank you Twitter is easy with a retweet. Make it easy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

That shows up in user’s news feeds, and in their profile. Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Ads can be targeted by profile data. Individuals can become “fans&# of that product or organization. That, of course, can spread virally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. Is Twitter A Traffic Tool, Not. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

You know why I started to twitter. 2 trackbacks } Change » Blog Archive » Profile aggregators 12.18.07 BTW, I’m paranoid enough that I wrote a tool for easily finding people on Twitter that doesn’t require you to give up your Gmail account. I was underwhelmed, and forgot about it. tool to jump in.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Basically, it means that the data that you put into social networking sites, like profiles, social graph (those who you are connected to,) media, etc. These include Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and many others. So first, what is data portability? are *yours* to do whatever you want with.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 29, 2012

In 2008, Will was named a John D. I also saw a more recent profile of him this spring on Food Forward. He is now the CEO of Growing Power , an organization that develops community food systems. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a "genius grant," only the second farmer ever to be so honored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. I met James Leventhal via Twitter and we ended up working together on a project. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. California is part of the OMCA’s mission.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile. I decided to try out facebook when I kept hearing about the integration of other social networking sites into facebook. or flickr) – but it’s fun to play with, anyway.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

It was the optimal time for early adoption of social media by nonprofits, and it’s no coincidence that the nonprofits that embraced these new tools in 2006 through 2008 are today the most successful nonprofits on the Social Web. Find your competitors the Web. with a note that you fear your nonprofit is falling behind.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Signing up for new ones, making profiles, adding friends, adding applications, etc. They own my profile, and whatever time I spend adding content. My curmugeonly thoughts fall into three basic categories of sucks: time suck, content suck, privacy suck. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. And, yet another login and password.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 10, 2008

June 10, 2008 Today, someone on the progressive exchange list asked about a tool called Rapleaf. I don’t know whether to be sad or proud that RapLeaf finds only my Facebook profile and no demos. What is public? 2 admin 06.11.08 at 10:56 am Thanks, Thomas, you’re right – there is an error there.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. Connect with her on Twitter , Google Plus , Slideshare , or Linkedin.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. " They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. Online Giving Tops $15 Billion in 2008. The Online Donor Profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Truth be told, there is nothing on my LinkedIn or Facebook profiles that isn’t public knowledge, except who my contacts are. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you’re sending it on a one-way trip. 3 KJ 08.09.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. Dave and I have something in common – Conan O’Brien made fun of our LinkedIn Profiles on his show. ” And, of course, someone set up a spoof Twitter account. “The cows will be tweeting.”

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Amongst 11-25 year olds, Facebook is trailed by Bebo (28%), MySpace (25%), Twitter (12%), MSN (9%), YouTube (2%) and “other” (4%). Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. What It Means.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

When you add in everything else they do, from being an ambassador of the event to raising your organization’s profile in the community, it’s easy to see why these are relationships worth developing. Follow them on Twitter and retweet relevant posts. Don’t stop there, though. Meet for coffee occasionally. Send a birthday card.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Twitter is a major part of Epic Change campaigns and their daily engagement plan. The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. Epic Change is no different.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. I reached out to Farra through her LinkedIn profile. I'm talking about those places that you can control (Vimeo, Twitter, wrappers, YouTube, etc.). We could change the description, profile picture, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Probably middle of 2008. Like people generally do, we thought about the impact that Twitter and Facebook were making on the web. Do that enough times and your organization, no matter how small, will have a chance to grow its public profile substantially. When did RWW start focusing on the real-time Web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

There were a number of questions related to tools and tactics that I couldn't answer off the top of my head - so I decided to crowdsource them on Twitter asking for answers in the comments. How often should an organization post to Twitter or send out updates on Facebook? Thank you Kevin! Quality is more important than quantity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

She is also the co-author of the business bestseller, " Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies ", published by Harvard Business Press in May 2008. But I use these sites, as well as Twitter and FriendFeed, to stay up on what people are doing. Twitter: My updates are unlocked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

In June of 2007, nearly over 35% of Facebook traffic came the 18-24 year old segment, compared to around 22% in June 2008. I've changed where I'm willing to link to anyone who I feel may be a good person to know in the future based on their profile and possibly a limited messaging exchange. Twitter: My updates are unlocked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Peter had analyzed my use of Twitter and shared at the conference that I use it to communicate, in small increments of time, with those who choose to follow my tweets (which, for today at least, is 1,284 people). I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. many of the tools have similar elements - status updates, profile pictures, short bios. This age group is increasingly on Facebook , MySpace and Twitter -- more ’mainstream’ social networks.“

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Joining your LinkedIn group adds your organization to my professional profile, and allows easier in-network messaging. The tech to connect Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, cell, email, addresses and other PID is here -- and it improves by the day. Collect my cell and there is a 90% chance I open your text message. During his 4.5

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A Twitter trending hashtag or viral video can put a topic on the media agenda, creating a spiral of attention that spreads your message far beyond its traditional audience. What they actually did was far more mundane – the same type of modeling and segmentation that the Obama campaign deployed in 2008 and 2012.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. I reached out to Farra through her LinkedIn profile. I’m talking about those places that you can control (Vimeo, Twitter, wrappers, YouTube, etc.). I did it in order of least traffic to most, making the Twitter and Facebook changes last.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Email lists are continuing to grow, though the rate of growth was 17% in 2008. messages per month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Send the message below to your network of friends and family via text, Twitter and/or email: Today is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' 60th anniversary. Change your profile photo on your social networks to a photo of you with the message, "Every Human Has Rights," or to the campaign badge above which can be downloaded here.

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