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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. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. Of the Big Three, Twitter requires the most time to utilize.

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Listen First! Finding Networks and Connections in Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Ning/Yahoo/Google. Twitter: even if you don’t want to engage on it, you need to be listening there. Follow #10ntc.listen on Twitter for links and conversation from this session. Where are the conversations? Communities. What to listen for: brand. sponsors and donors. supporters and evangelists. industry and local news.

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External, alienated, busy-busy

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

As you might know, almost a year ago, I made a big change in my use of social media – I segregated my social graph – work related stuff moved to LinkedIn and Twitter, and personal friends only on Facebook. There are things I really like about Twitter, Identi.ca, Buzz, etc. I won’t be tweeting really anymore.

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Are Nonprofits Raising Money Via Social Networks?

Care2

The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report provides some incredible data on how 11K+ nonprofits are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Facebook usage levels are at 89% with nonprofits versus only 57% usage of Twitter. LinkedIn is used by 1 in 3 nonprofits. Big Picture Data.

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What OpenSocial Means

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Marc Andreessen, who is, of late, connected to Ning, has a great blog entry with details. Google has a number of partners, including social network sites like LinkedIn, Friendster and Ning, as well as Salesforce, which does have very interesting implications given the increasing use of Salesforce in the nonprofit sector.

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

Search on Google , Google Blog Search , Technorati , Twitter Search , and Social Mention for your cause, the name of your organization (if you have one), and the URL of your website (if you have one). A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents. Are you a natural writer?

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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. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools. And for spreading buzz for that matter). 5 hours per week).