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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? Twitter has over 16 million users. We found that participants who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube communicate with their networks more regularly and send more messages. Twitter as a Multiplier.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter: twitter.com/nwf. 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. Twitter was the most useful for connecting with individuals. Organization Size: 400 employees.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place. " (which you'll recognize on Twitter by the use of the hash or # symbol prior to the tag).

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Social Network Tracker: How to Find your Supporters on Social Networks

Care2

Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. StumbleUpon. The Social Network Tracker is one tool that can help you quickly connect with your base. LiveJournal.

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WeAreMedia ToolBox: This Week We're Working Crowdsourcing, Micro Media, and Lifestreaming Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    This includes Twitter, Utterli, and Sesmic.    This is the place to share all your great Twitter clients and more.   Come help us fill out the toolbox!   This includes FriendFeed and Social Thing.

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My wish for Web 2.5

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I now have accounts at del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, furl, and stumbleupon. Anyone going to help clean up? too bad they don’t have stumbleupon included. But I’m not so sold on stumbleupon anyway. Be Helpful. Hint to NTEN : Affinity Group Planets!) Second, is bookmarking. It’s a mess out there.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. By making a human connection with people online, you can influence their perception of your brand and help them find meaningful, relevant ways to support your mission.