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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts.

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media. Reports of the Death of Social Networking for Nonprofits Are Not True! Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? Your Organization's Social Networking Strategy Doesn't Have To Be Like Mastercard.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. I see on the slides different services, is there one comprehensive program where we can manage everything?

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space. Why Has Fundraising Online Shifted so Quickly? She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.