NCE Social Media

MARCH 17, 2009

Here is a great story from CIO.com that details how to launch your presence on Twitter. Tags: Marketing and Awareness Tools twitter CIO twitip business. It includes a definitive reading list, examples of how others have done it. They refer you to TwiTip which provides a bevy of information you can harness for your own agency.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 21, 2010

Every wonder how your Twitter postings influences others? Free online tools such as Klout analyze your use of Twitter and gives you recommendations to be more influential. Tags: Education and Training Marketing and Awareness twitter klout influence. Try it out and see what ideas it may spawn… Influence.

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NCE Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

It is an application that shows you current connections for any Twitter username (including your own). Here’s an example: Mention Map for ACHIEVA’s Twitter feed. It works by looking as hastags you use and connections your Twitter account has to create a visual image of your “map&#. Once example is Mention Map.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2010

Tags: Education and Training Facebook Microblog Research social media twitter facebook privacy. Posting private information on social media sites takes that to a whole new level. A copy of the recording should be up shortly but in the mean time here are the slides from my presentation.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , they are defined as: “a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. Tags: Education and Training Tools # facebook hashtag search twitter.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Tags: Microblog Research twitter Sysomos Retweet. If you need help seeing when people retweet your posts, check out our past post on tools that can help you post to social media. These tools allow you to see retweets, too. You've only got 60 minutes - image from Sysomos.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 16, 2009

Below is a chart showing how Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace compare in number of unique visitors in the past 13 months. Facebook and Twitter have grown while MySpace has been stagnant. Tags: Facebook Marketing and Awareness Microblog Tools twitter facebook myspace compete. Why not harness it for your own benefit.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

Today, Twitter was shut down by a denial of service attack. Even if they couldn’t tweet their status, Twitter was able to post to their information to their blog and get information out through print and new media outlets. Tags: Tools ddos disaster media social twitter. Do you have a back up plan in place?

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Evan Williams is the CEO and co-founder of Twitter. Tags: Tools blogger listen odeo pyra twitter. He also happened to co-found Pyra Labs, which created Blogger , the blogging tool that popularized the term blog and blogging, and Odeo a podcasting company. Here is a video of him discussing how to listen to your users.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Twitter lists. Tags: Tools facebook top10 twitter. People are still trying to figure out how to raise money through social media. Realtime search. Building my agency’s brand through social media. Engaging my constituents through another form of open communication. Giving self-advocates a voice through social media.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

I was limited to discussing only three social media tools, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, because of time. Tags: Education and Training Tools causes facebook social media twitter YouTube. Here are my slides that I wanted to share with you. > Beth Kanter has an excellent explanation of them here.

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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. Social media tools, such as Twitter are free resources that allows you to post information, news, comments and links in real time. Why are you using social media like Twitter, Facebook, etc.? So why are you broadcasting?

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2010

Other facts uncovered in the study: 90% of charities had Twitter accounts. Tags: Research facebook socialmedia statistics. The study found that charities adopted social media faster and the adoption was more widespread than for-profit use. 65% had blogs. 36% had LinkedIn pages. 30% had MySpace pages.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Tags: Microblog Tools ALS tweet twitter. They were also wise to remind viewers to change their Facebook status for the day. This online giving program day then reaches multiple platforms. Tweeting for Dollars!

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Here are two tools that you can download and will allow you to post updates to your Twitter and Facebook feeds. Tags: Facebook Microblog Tools adobeair facebook seesmic tweetdeck twitter. Tweetdeck is a nice tool that allows you to see your various tweets, posts, what people you follow are tweeting or posting, etc.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 13, 2009

In fact, there was a small brouhaha when legislators twittered during President Obama’s state of the union address. To see if your legislators use Twitter visit www.TweetCongress.org. This site has a list of congressmen who use Twitter. Please note that the site also includes the YouTube webpage links for the legislators.

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NCE Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Tags: Policy social media twitter guidelines. Do you already have a social media policy that you’d like to share? What are some examples of social media policies that you like? Please feel free to share in the comments.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Would you like to have a Twitter-like service that only your board or staff could view? Unlike Twitter, Present.ly Unlike Twitter, Present.ly Tags: Microblog Tools microblogging presently. Let me introduce you to Present.ly. I came across this this morning and wondered if anyone has used this for their own agency?

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Do you send out text messages or use other tools such as Twitter or Facebook for consumers and families with cell phones? Food for thought… Tags: Tools cyberchondriacs health havenots. However using social media directed towards cell phones can be a way around it.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 29, 2009

4) Link to your profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We also have a new feature for nonprofits on Change.org that is synched with Twitter and allows admins to ask the rapidly growing Change.org community for help with a specific need in 140 characters or less. 2) Message all your supporters. THANKS so much, Heather.

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NCE Social Media

MAY 28, 2010

Sites like Twitter, which ranked #18, were classified as an email and messaging site. Tags: Research facebook myspace linkedin orkut hi5 reren vkontakte. Orkut 2.90% (#45 overall). LinkedIn 2.50% (#56 overall). Hi5 2.20% (#63 overall). Renren 2.00% (#70 overall). 1.70% (#81 overall).

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) and answer the question “Why bother?&# Tags: Education and Training #arc09 convention education socialmedia. Stacy Monaghan, Online Advocacy Manager, The Arc of the United States; Mr. Jon Erickson, Ms. Kristin Erickson, Parlerai, Inc., Scituate, MA. I’ll be there and hope you will be, too!

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Here is a list of chapters that I’ve come across today that are using Twitter. Tags: Microblog Tools. These are in addition to the Arc Hamilton and The Albany Arc , which I have mentioned previously. The Arc of the US @TheArcUS. The Arc of Dallas @arcdallas. The Arc of Minnesota @TheARCofMN. The Arc of Monroe @ArcofMonroe.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I want to acknowledge that there are now 83 Arc-related groups on Twitter. Verizon Support contacted me through Twitter to see if they could help. They have a staff person whose only job is to monitor social media sites like Twitter to help their customers – and this person had read my tweet.

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NCE Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter have proven to be a way for people to communicate during a crisis. Tags: Facebook Marketing and Awareness Tools communications crisis earthquake wyclef yele. How do you get in contact with staff? Can you text them? Can you call a cell phone if phone lines are down?

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

For example, if you type my name, Dave Tinker, in Google you will find my Facebook link as the #1 result and my Twitter page as the #3 result. Tags: Education and Training Research Tools ask.com bing google SEO social media yahoo.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

Okay, after reading all about Twitter , you’re finally ready to open your account. For many methods of browsing Twitter, your thumbnail is the only bio information that comes through along with your username, so try make a statement with it that says something about you. You can also use a service like Twitter Backgrounds.

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NCE Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Also, you can search Twitter to find comments about the event and see how you might want to incorporate Twitter into your own conferences and events. Tags: Education and Training Facebook Marketing and Awareness Microblog Tools Video Wordpress twitter AFP afpnola ammado givezooks theport conference.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Content of any kind can be collected into online folders that users can then easily share with friends via Twitter, Facebook, email or elsewhere on the social web. Tags: Tools bookmarking social toobla. widgets like YouTube or other videos, photos, documents, games and widget applications).

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