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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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Great reads from December 12th through December 13th

Amy Sample Ward

Pacific is First to Integrate Facebook and Twitter into e2Campus Emergency Notification System - Pacific University, in Forest Grove, OR, USA, is the first university in the US to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the emergency response system for alerting staff and students in times of emergency.

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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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Google +: The Trade Off Between Privacy Needs, Community, and Social Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. The tag is still active on Twitter and other places. I found it overwhelming! This means choices will be made.

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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.   Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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

Care2

StumbleUpon. Help spread the word about your organizations or cause to their personal network. Here is the short list of the social media sites that are included in our analysis: Facebook. LiveJournal. Match Rate: The anticipated match rate for Social Network Tracker data append is 70% to 80%. However, results may vary for your file.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Twitter, however, is distinctive in that it reserves its own name for its tagging system; "hashtags. 400+ Twitter Chat Schedule.

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