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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day. But this year, the buzz leading up to the November 15 event on Twitter and Facebook, as well as on sites like YouTube and Linkedin, was even stronger. Each year since the event started in 2009, we’ve seen these numbers grow.

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NTEN Webinar: Social Media Measurement Steps and How To Measure Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first ladder of engagement was developed for the America’s Giving Challenge contest that I won in 2008 - it was a framework that used the “community manager” or “network weaver” as the human face to connect with people and bring them to the next level of involvement. Facebook Ladder of Engagement.

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3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media

BoardAssist

Not a board meeting goes by where one of my board members doesn’t tell me about some cool new social media tool they are using. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc.) In 2009, he co-founded the award-winning ITWorks program which helps vulnerable young adults get started in careers in technology. Each social media channel (i.e.

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Thank You To the Max: Minnesota Give to Max Day Raised $13.4 Million in 24 Hours

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In total, GiveMN has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009. Here are some statistics that show just how important Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were to our success. Social media strategy payoff. Average time on site was over 9 minutes.

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24 hours, millions of dollars, thousands of nonprofits—What gives in Minnesota?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. Jeff Achen gives us the inside view.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. It eventually garnered 45,000 users who took advantage of the easy-to-access tool to place reports.

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