NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Mashable has a nice story about why you should have a Social Media Policy at your agency. The Social Media Governance website has 82 examples of social media policies in place at corporations. Tags: Education and Training Policy Tools mashable social media.

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APRIL 14, 2011

Here is a short video from Constant Contact on the challenges tackling social media and the metrics that are important, especially as you start using social media. The speaker discusses small business but it can easily be interchanged with nonprofit organization. What have been some of your struggles?

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Outside of a few web directories local to your organization, I wouldn’t recommend working on search engines other than the top four search engines because they account for more than 96% of all web searches. I bet you’re asking why I’m talking about SEO on a site for social media. You should review these.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company or organization, without them being visible to the outside world. allows individuals to post short, frequent updates that are tracked or “followed&# by others. Unlike Twitter, Present.ly If so, please share your feedback in the comments section.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

In the past week I’ve given two talks to two different groups on the same subject – social media and fundraising. The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. You still need to be social.

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2012

A new study has found that Americans have spent 121 billion minutes on social media this year. At 121 billion minutes, that means the average American, including all newborns and the most senior of senior citizens, spends 6 hours on social media each year. Are they seeing anything from your organization?

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NCE Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2012

It leads me to point out that even if you don’t post information to social media – others will on your behalf. If they post with nefarious reasons it can damage your personal or your organization’s reputation online. What do you expect from social media in 2013? Pay attention!

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NCE Social Media

JULY 20, 2012

Here is a video from NTEN of Maddie Grant interviewing Evonne Heyning about how livestreaming can benefit your organization’s communications and engagement. Maddie works at Socialfish and is someone who knows her stuff when it comes to social media and nonprofits.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Does a student, or parent of a student, really want to let their child have a professional account connected to their other social media accounts that are for fun? You can encourage younger audiences to connect to your group through a professional social networking tool. Perhaps, but time will tell.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 12, 2012

Pinterest is a social media pinboard now used by more than 10 million people per month. Now how can your organization use it? Do you use Pinterest for your organization? Since I wrote about Pinterest earlier , I wanted to share a video about how to set up and use Pinterest.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

It details the noticeable lack of nonprofit organizations that are in the top 100 list of Twitter users. As nonprofit organizations, we should be at the absolute top of the list. Social media tools, such as Twitter are free resources that allows you to post information, news, comments and links in real time.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Open APIs and deals between social media sites. News organizations that continue to use social media even though there isn’t revenue in it. People are still trying to figure out how to raise money through social media. Building my agency’s brand through social media.

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APRIL 3, 2009

I wanted to share an interesting Slideshare presentation on designing for the social web. I think it takes an interesting looks at social web design - what really goes into it and what you should consider for your own organization. Tags: Education and Training Research social media slideshare design.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2009

For folks who are in Nashville for the NCE Summer Leadership Institute , please make sure to visit Holly Ross’ sessions on social media on Saturday. Her concurrent session on social media is at 9:00 am to 10:45 am and she is the keynote speaker at lunch on Saturday. You’re in for a treat.

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APRIL 1, 2010

There is a new social media tool coming out that aims to connect individuals with charities. His goal is to connect individuals with the social changes that interest them the most. Jumo will allow both individuals and organizations to have pages on the site. Will it cause a disruptive change for social good?

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APRIL 3, 2009

There were social media companies there hocking their wares. There also were charities there who conducted presentations on their use of social media. Givezooks - Social fundraising tool that fits into many of the social media sites at a grassroots level. Using new and traditional media.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

But how do you use it to help drive website hits to your organizations webpage? Specifically, Marc Pittman , noted author and speaker on nonprofits and technology, shares how Google Plus can benefit your organization. If you odn’t use it, did you know than more than 100,000,000 do?

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Other than spam from companies trying to sell you goods, how do you think this will impact you and your organization? It’s also been reported that you cannot have and weblinks in your Twitter direct messages.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 26, 2012

YouTube recently announced that they opened livestreaming capabilities for nonprofit organizations who have a channel on YouTube. If you are not already registered with Youtube as a charity, here are steps to do so. Let us know once you do so we can share your experiences.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

So while 1 Billion is very impressive how many people have liked your organization, have uploaded photos about your group, or have engaged you on Facebook? Remember that next time they change their advertising or privacy policies.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 14, 2011

because it organizes the posts made by people you follow into categories. You may also even set up a paper for a specific hashtag or keyword that is of interest to you such as this one. You may also have multiple papers. I like Paper.li When people post links to photos or videos, it adds those too.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

That’s just a small sampling of what your organization can now do on Change.org with the premium toolset. If you know how to use the site and the tools correctly, your organization could have hundreds if not thousands of new supporters in just a few months – something we regularly see with organizations that engage the Change.org community.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

DoGooderTV gives nonprofit organizations tools to present video online. On DoGooderTV, nonprofits can create their own page, with their logo and links to direct ways to donate to the organization, join, volunteer or simply find out more information.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Ever wonder if you should create an application, i.e. an app, related to your organization for people to use on their phones? The answer is maybe or maybe not just yet. Let’s look at the current market of people who use apps. A Pew Internet Study found that. 82% of adults surveyed used cellphones.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

If you have a Facebook page for your organization be prepared for a change on March 30, 2012. Facebook is changing all pages over to it’s timeline format. What does that mean for you? Well, since there is a change in layout, you’ll want to make sure you have branding and graphics correctly sized and ready for the change.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 17, 2009

Also, read the reader feedback about launching your presence for smaller organizations and companies. Here is a great story from CIO.com that details how to launch your presence on Twitter. It includes a definitive reading list, examples of how others have done it.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 25, 2009

Holly Ross, Executive Director of NTEN, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting technology use by nonprofit organizations recently made a presentation at an event hosted by Google , Facebook , and the Salesforce.com Foundation. The presentation focused on using the cloud for nonprofit technology needs.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 16, 2009

Greatnonprofits has partnered with Guidestar to post the reviews from your Greatnonprofits listing to your organization’s Guidestar listing. It also allows you to use a pre-formatted box to link to their site so people can review your agency. Here’s a link explaining it in greater detail.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 17, 2011

This will be interesting to see how it may be tweaked to manage your organization’s reputation. 3) Here is an infographic on the real cost of social media from Column Five Media. from your constituents who are connected to you via social media?

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Let us know how you are or will use it for your organization. If you use Vine, share your username in the comments section. The Vine account I created to test can be found at [link] Feel free to visit it.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Frequent users of the social web can have their content automatically sent to Toobla so that anything they bookmark or favorite while they find content online ends up on Toobla, thereby helping them to better organize and never forget where to find their favorite content online.&#.

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