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787 Articles match "Facebook","Organization"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Now eight months later, with the exception of Facebook, Twitter and Pandora, I rarely use Apps on my iPhone anymore. Believe it or not, Facebook Mobile is now growing faster than Facebook Desktop!
Facebook of course is one step ahead with Facebook Touch . When I bought my first iPhone in June 2009 I was absolutely blown away. Love my iPhone.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
EDF has embraced the spirit of this sharing - not only remixing a version of the game for their organization,but also sharing back the materials and what worked!
Or, in other words, should other organizations consider doing this? People get excited about something — tweeting, setting up Google Reader, signing up for Facebook. Find more photos like this on So You Think You Can Do Social Media
Note From Beth: Since 2007, I've been using, adapting, and remixing the Social Media Game social media workshops for nonprofits . In fact, just last month, I took it
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Monday, March 8, 2010
NEW YORK – March 8, 2010 – In the aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile, nonprofit organizations raced to mobilize aid and plan recovery efforts, while also raising resources and funds to support their humanitarian programs in Chile. In response, AmeriCares, Catholic Relief Services and Habitat for Humanity have expanded their use of SMS and mobile marketing beyond just text-to-give to include critical, informational updates on their relief efforts to donors, as well as to bring new supporters into their organizations.
AmeriCares, Catholic Relief Services and Habitat for Humanity adopt mobile for engaging supporters and fundraising
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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Nonprofits that have been using Facebook for a year or more consistently comment “OK… Facebook is great, but how can we take our Facebook Page strategy to the next level?” 8221; Below are six advanced Facebook Page strategies in response to that question:
If you know html and have a good graphic designer, then you can use the Static FBML 1) Create Customized Tabs.
Advanced strategies requires advanced tech skills.
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Scheduled to occur sometime between late 2009 and early 2010, some major changes are coming to Facebook Fan Pages. 90% of the power of a Facebook Fan Page is being able to post Status Updates that can be viewed by fans in their News Feed. When the new Pages launch, if your nonprofit’s Status Updates will show up in the News Feed will depend upon one of those mysterious Facebook algorithms. My first instinct is that the changes below are going to significantly impact nonprofits, and in some cases, not in a good way. I
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
There are thousands of Apps in the Facebook App Directory that Nonprofit Admins could experiment with on your organization’s Facebook Page, but below I have highlighted my five favorite Apps to get you started:
The Static FMBL App is the most important App on Facebook for Nonprofit Admins to master. It allows you 1. The Static FBML App
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam (didn't get his last name) from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages.
This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good. Here's the description
Expanding on the Non-Profits on Facebook page, we want to help you harness the power of Facebook and bring positive change to the world.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Over the last few weeks I have been running a Facebook Advertising experiment for the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page . While the ad itself produced little-to-no results, some unexpected Facebook insights did come out of running the ad. Facebook did not run the second ad for reasons I do not know.
The results are below:
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
T oday I was asked again about the difference between Facebook Pages and Groups .
Facebook created Pages, Groups and Profiles – three separate applications – to help individuals and organizations achieve three separate goals:
Create a presence for a business, brand or non-profit on Facebook ( Facebook Pages ).
The same question came up a couple of times during the Philanthropy.com chat that Chris Garrett and I conducted back in February.
Pages, Groups and Profiles
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
You set up a Facebook Group, sent out invitations, and attracted some members. Too many messages” is the Number One reason for people leaving a Facebook Group. Facebook Events are famous for people saying that they’ll attend and then not showing up, by the way, so you might want to follow up with a conventional invitation and/or make a contingency plan in case of smaller-than-expected numbers.
Following is a guest post from my Canadian friend, Rebecca Leaman, who writes for Wild Apricot and runs the NonProfitWorkshop with Chris Garrett and me.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Facebook provides an unprecedented opportunity for nonprofits: 200 million monthly active users, about half of whom are signing in and communicating with their friends on a daily basis, is an organizer's dream.
We developed Causes because we know what it takes to be an activist and we know how much social networking can revolutionize grassroots organizing. Susan Gordon, Causes
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Facebook of February 2010 is quite different from the Facebook of 2009 especially when it comes to Facebook Fan Pages. If you haven’t yet noticed, three very important changes have been made that significantly effect your organization’s Facebook community:
There is a mysterious Facebook algorithm at play here and I just don’t know what it is, but I do know that with the launch of new Facebook 1) Status Updates are no longer guaranteed to get exposure in the News Feed.
More are seemingly showing up in the News Feed > Most
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Even when I wasn’t at home at my desk, I was on my iPhone updating Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Don’t update your organization’s profiles on the weekend.
The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. If you work in an office, Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I
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