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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly. As a starting point, all nonprofits should be investing time and resources in the “Big Three”: Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind only Google. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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How One Nonprofit Used Social Media for Damage Control During A PR Crisis That Erupted During a Fundraiser

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As the event organizer, we allocated a few thousand dollars to paid promotion of posts on Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube. Fortunately, we had a team of social media volunteers at a central location (our “command center”) at the Mall of America which made it easy to coordinate our response via email, blog, Facebook and Twitter.

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Storymakers 2014: Meet Our Esteemed Judges

Tech Soup

She works with nonprofits throughout North America — including BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, Union Gospel Mission, Share Family and Community Services, and Cancer Care Connection — and is an internationally recognized speaker. Her work reaches a community of more than 5,000 nonprofit professionals each month.

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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

Here are some statistics that show just how important Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were to our success. Our Give to the Max Day celebrity PSA video has earned 2,620 views on YouTube , in addition to being aired on numerous local and state television networks. Our Give to the Max Day “Thank You” video has earned 2,413 views on YouTube.

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Video and Photography 101. will feature TechSoup's own Glenn Fajardo and digital media trainer Nife Adeyemi, who will talk through postproduction editing, tools to use, adding sound and graphics, and sharing your video on social channels like YouTube. Central and South America. Friday, April 8.

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GiveMN 2012 Giving Day by the Numbers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We were able to coach many nonprofit staff on best practices using email, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Social media has always been a key communication tool for Give to the Max Day.

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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

Key partnerships with TheUpTake.org , Mall of America , Razoo and Padilla Speer Beardsley have been critical to our success. Jeff is in charge of video production, photography, graphic design, communication efforts and social media strategy for GiveMN, including the GiveMN blog , Twitter , Facebook and YouTube.

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