Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. The rumors started rolling in around third quarter of last year – Instagram was going to fill up your photo feed with ads. Fast Company just reported that users spend 257 minutes per month on Instagram, which is 15 times that of Facebook.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

#GivingTuesday 2013 might over, but no it’s not! Limitless Good launched a “Share a Smile, We’ll Share a Meal” campaign to donate to Feeding America. People were asked to post photos of their smiles on the Limitless Good “Share a Smile” Facebook page and the company provided a $1 donation for each smile shared on #GivingTuesday.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. As of June 2013, there were 70 million users, and 30 percent of those were active.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Right as you’re digging up the last of your expense receipts and scraping together what looks like a favorable giving report, you look at Instagram ® , Facebook ® , or the news and see coverage of brilliantly executed events with tons of smiling volunteers, generous guests, and crazy amounts of press that people just can’t stop talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Over the summer, Facebook has enabled you to pay for an individual post to be seen in more of your fans’ newsfeeds. If you are a FB Page administrator, you probably noticed the new metric Facebook has on the bottom of every post showing how many people it reached. One way to explain our Facebook strategy is the social funnel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

On the day that I submitted the final manuscript of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits to McGraw-Hill, Facebook launched Timeline for Pages. The new time allotment and updated tool list is as follows: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube: 15 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Find Your Facebook Voice.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. And I want more.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

will be using smartphones and the mobile web in 2013. Social networks and media applications like Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Reddit, among others, put an emphasis on visual media, over textual content. eMarkerter predicts that more than 50% of the 76.4 million Baby Boomers in the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

That said, the following excerpt from Chapter 9 of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits will help your nonprofit get started with launching a mobile website or at the very least get the idea percolating and higher on your priority list for 2013. Make sure that it links to your mobile website home page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Analyze your nonprofit organization using Facebook Insights data to understand your core audience and its wants and needs. Examine the data on individual posts to determine which status updates and which photos have been shared the most. Also, use your website to promote your Facebook and Twitter pages. Use Facebook Efficiently.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Here are the 7 Things You Need to Know About 2013 Online Donors from Gail Perry, with action steps you must take to ensure your site is armed and ready for the online giving season, and every season in between. million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. And I want more. Yours truly, Madeline.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

citizens, tech privacy became a hot topic – and a major concern – in 2013. The app won't broadcast your location on other social networks (like Facebook). Android, iPhone, and Browsers) keeps your online data secure by scanning for privacy issues based on your Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn settings.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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