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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

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Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Yes, we definitely are. Anything else?

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

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MySpace estimates that 50% of its Website traffic will be mobile within 24 months. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTube. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

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At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side. The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again. That’s something we will learn by watching Justin Timberlake re-launch Myspace in 2012.

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HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Photo-Sharing Campaign for Your Nonprofit

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They were on Myspace and organizing via Facebook Groups years before corporate brands, higher education, and broadcast and print media. If your nonprofit works with teens and young people, this is a mobile photo-sharing community that you should definitely explore. Nonprofits pioneered social media.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

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It was much more traffic than I would have ever thought possible, but thanks to the burgeoning “Nonprofit Organizations” communities that I had built on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, launching a blog was much easier in 2009 than it was when I tried and failed in 2004. Definitely integrate your blog posts with your e-newsletter.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

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Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. YouTube: youtube.com/nationalwildlife.