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APRIL 4, 2012

The Average Facebook & Twitter Communities Grow by 30% and 81%, respectively. Facebook Pages and 1.2 Twitter Accounts. The Average Cost of a Facebook Like is $3.50 and a Twitter Follower costs $2.05. The Average Value of a Facebook Like is $214.81 The Average Value of a Facebook Like is $214.81

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JULY 27, 2012

If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Add it to your Facebook Apps. Include your events, photos, maps, twitter link, polls, and of course, your email list.

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JULY 6, 2011

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube? Twitter has more than 16 million users, and 42.3 percent of the entire American population is on Facebook. Twitter is different than Facebook, and Facebook is different than LinkedIn.

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APRIL 3, 2012

6 Key Findings from the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Report… 98% have a Facebook page with an average community size of over 8k fans. Average Facebook and Twitter communities grew by 30% and 81%, respectively. Average value of a Facebook Like is $214.81 Tweet It!]. Tweet It!]. Tweet It!].

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MARCH 7, 2011

Join us as we talk about the latest social good initiatives underway at Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and YouTube while also seeing how non-profit organizers are using these tools to change the world. Follow Frank on Twitter. Her second book, exploring how causes can excel using Twitter, comes out in the summer of 2011.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Think about it for a second. Amazing stuff.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Most social networking sites allow you to do some level of branding – whether it’s a a custom background on Twitter or a logo designed to work on your Facebook page you can make your brand presence known.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. Bok Tower Gardens have almost 15,000 likes on Facebook and over 9000 Foursquare check ins. They have 1500 Twitter followers and tweet daily.

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MARCH 11, 2012

Through the Start Something Web Series they’re shedding light on the impact that Bigs have on Littles by telling their story through quality video they publish on their YouTube channel, share on their website and talk about on Facebook. So far they’ve covered six matches between Bigs and Littles. Go find out what your dog match looks like

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Facebook, Twitter); average community size in Twitter rose 627% to 1,792. Although nonprofits’ overall use of house networks (private communities built on a nonprofit’s own web site) has dropped, average house network size is 50% higher than the average Facebook community size.

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MARCH 25, 2013

6 Specific Challenges Online Fundraisers Should Consider When Using Facebook. by John Haydon, Author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies and blogger at www.johnhaydon.com. Follow him on Twitter @franswaa and make sure to download npEXPERTS. by Beth Kanter, Social Media Expert and Author of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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JUNE 8, 2012

It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. Use the Facebook and twitter widgets to pull social posts to your website for fresh content and relevant, engaging activity. The world of social media is changing. Incorporate social sharing on your site via AddThis or ShareThis. Tweet, blog and post.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Make sure to follow him on Twitter at @noyesjesse and check out the Eloqua blog – they’re doing some great things! You might be proud of your custom Facebook page and how many people follow you on Twitter. This is a guest post by Jesse Noyes. He’s a Corporate Reporter at Eloqua. Games are maturing fast.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

It was interesting seeing which platform (Facebook, Twitter, email, face-to-face, etc.) While my email list included some of the social media friends I was already reaching via other channels, it contained mostly relatives, parent’s friends, and classmates who typically do not see my Twitter and Facebook activity.

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JUNE 20, 2011

42% of the American population is active on Facebook, but most struggle to successfully raise significant amounts of money. Twitter has over 14 million users, but does anyone actually pay attention to you there?

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MAY 17, 2011

Twitter and Facebook updates convert roughly 0.25 Organizations increase overall fundraising revenue by 40% more than industry benchmark. Users raise six times more than non-users. Fundraising emails have a 90% or greater open rate and a 25% conversion rate. percent of impressions into donations.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Next came Social Media where platforms like Facebook and Twitter have revolutionized the way we engage with our supporters. When a supporter signs up to help fundraise for the nonprofit they are given access to an easy to use tool kit that helps them engage their network through email, Facebook, and Twitter.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (and even Google+) are growing like crazy. Once you’ve spent some time reaching out to your friends and family via email, Facebook and Twitter you’ll start to see donations come in. Simple as that! 3) Engage Through Social Media. 4) Pay Attentions to Reports.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Claire Williams Diaz who works on social innovation at Twitter. Once the panel discussion begins I’ll be taking questions from the audience as well as fielding questions via Twitter. If you’re at the conference make sure to connect with the panelist and me ( @franswaa ) on Twitter before the event. Incredible!). link] #bbco.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Watch the video below to learn a bit more and make sure to check out their Facebook page , Twitter account and Blog. What’s really interesting about Joelle’s work is that she helps build community through social media for the 155 overnight summer camps that the FJC supports across North America.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Make sure to check out what NWF is doing on the social web: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Flickr. Prior to that we’re discussing who NWF is, how NWF uses social media, and Danielle’s roll in the day to day operation at NWF. SXSW 2011: Danielle Brigida Talks Fortresses, Free Agents and Social Media with Frank Barry.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Their new site goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. What they’ve done is create a “social media mashup” – Google Friend Connect, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iLike and more. The United Methodist Church recently launched a site with social media at its heart! Why’d they take this approach you ask?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I doubt that anyone had Facebook, Google, Twitter or YouTube on their mind when the early internet was being formed. . “Hypertext&# came about in 1989. Mosaic, the first graphical browser, hit the scene in 1993. Crazy to think that the first web browser came out less than 20 years ago. Internet Topics for Nonprofits.

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MAY 31, 2009

That said, we know that Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others are growing at astonishing rates. Facebook reached 200 Million users according to Mark Zuckerberg. Twitter grew by 1382% in February of 2009 according to Nielsen. YouTube shows that 14.8

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APRIL 21, 2010

Funny enough, the same advice works for the nonprofit trying to get out there in social media ( twitter , facebook , foursquare , etc.). …to quote my high school football coach. Very often the challenge is getting started.

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APRIL 4, 2012

They belong to the major social networks—Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn—and are the few that deliver messages to the many. Standard Consumers : Standard Consumers belong to one social network, usually Facebook, because they want to keep up with friends, family, and current events. Their posts are widely read and broadly shared.

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MARCH 25, 2013

By now, most of you have a Facebook page and a Twitter account. What you may not have considered, however, is how you can actually impact viral sharing and improve interactive marketing on your website. Here are two real solutions that get results. Social Media: Action Sharing.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Make sure to watch the brief video to see how EpicChange has impacted the lives of many children in Arusha, Tanzania using tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to raise money, connect people with a cause and tell their story.

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APRIL 8, 2010

How do you figure out if someone who volunteers for you is using Facebook or if a donor is active on Twitter? The ever growing social networking landscape makes it difficult to know if an existing or new supporter of yours is active on any of the current social networks (let alone the ones that haven’t been dreamed up yet).

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JUNE 7, 2012

Use online communication, such as your website, Facebook, Twitter and email blasts, as well as direct mail, newsletters and phone calls to past donors to keep them informed. Think about your events, campaigns, holidays, times of year, etc… and start planning how you can incorporate online fundraising into the mix.

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JUNE 30, 2011

Let me know that there are other things I can do to support you that aren’t all about money like: take an advocacy action, share with a friend, like you on Facebook, play a game, attend an in person or online event … and then, yes, ask me for money. Romance me a bit, tell me some stories, and get me fired up about the cause.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

If you haven’t already, set up a desktop Twitter client such as Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to tweet from multiple accounts including Facebook and LinkedIn. Twitter clients such as these also allow you to tweet from multiple Twitter accounts simultaneously, as well as to run searches across any search term.

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MAY 30, 2010

Twitter was first to the microblogging game - They recently hit the 15 BILLION tweet mark. Facebook, well they were far from first. A lot of people want to be FIRST. SixDegrees.com was first to the online social networking game in 1997 (not to long ago, eh?) - They shut their doors in 2000.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

What I do have, though, is a family, a best friend, a neighbor (an Aunt Mabel, if you will) that I’d much rather receive an e-mail, Facebook post or Twitter mention from than pretty much any non-profit organization. — Full disclosure: I don’t actually have an Aunt Mabel.

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APRIL 17, 2009

You’re on MySpace, you use the FaceBook Causes application, you keep constituents informed on Twitter, you show your event pictures on Flickr, you share videos on YouTube, and you know the power of blogging tools like WordPress or Blogger. So, your nonprofit is socially networked. In short, you’re well invested in Web 2.0. Now what?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Join us and get new ideas for connecting Facebook®, Twitter®, YouTube®, email and more. We Have a Facebook Page and My Participants are Tweeting…Now What? In this session, we’ll tackle best practices for multi-channel marketing to increase event recruitment, performance, and revenue. Download recording | Download session slides.

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MAY 25, 2011

As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Teach Them to Fundraise and Provide Samples.

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