NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

1) Stick to 3 Platforms - Blog / Facebook / Twitter. Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time. Stick to Facebook and Twitter. Shorten your URL and share it out via Facebook and Twitter.

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. They have 1500 Twitter followers and tweet daily. Their YouTube page has 29 videos, accumulating 1000s of views.

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NetWits

APRIL 26, 2011

Make sure to check out what NWF is doing on the social web: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Flickr. Prior to that we’re discussing who NWF is, how NWF uses social media, and Danielle’s roll in the day to day operation at NWF. SXSW 2011: Danielle Brigida Talks Fortresses, Free Agents and Social Media with Frank Barry.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. It’s amazing to watch technology evolve. Think about it for a second. Amazing stuff.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

I doubt that anyone had Facebook, Google, Twitter or YouTube on their mind when the early internet was being formed. Mosaic, the first graphical browser, hit the scene in 1993. Crazy to think that the first web browser came out less than 20 years ago. Internet Topics for Nonprofits.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2009

That said, we know that Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and others are growing at astonishing rates. Twitter grew by 1382% in February of 2009 according to Nielsen. YouTube shows that 14.8 Facebook reached 200 Million users according to Mark Zuckerberg.

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NetWits

JUNE 22, 2009

Their new site goes far beyond a Facebook page or Twitter account. What they’ve done is create a “social media mashup” – Google Friend Connect, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, iLike and more. The United Methodist Church recently launched a site with social media at its heart! Why’d they take this approach you ask?

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NetWits

APRIL 22, 2010

Make sure to watch the brief video to see how EpicChange has impacted the lives of many children in Arusha, Tanzania using tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to raise money, connect people with a cause and tell their story.

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NetWits

APRIL 8, 2010

How do you figure out if someone who volunteers for you is using Facebook or if a donor is active on Twitter? How do you know if an advocate is using YouTube to promote your case or Blogging to increase the public’s awareness of a topic you support?

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NetWits

AUGUST 2, 2011

Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (and even Google+) are growing like crazy. Once you’ve spent some time reaching out to your friends and family via email, Facebook and Twitter you’ll start to see donations come in. Simple as that! 3) Engage Through Social Media. 4) Pay Attentions to Reports.

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NetWits

APRIL 17, 2009

You’re on MySpace, you use the FaceBook Causes application, you keep constituents informed on Twitter, you show your event pictures on Flickr, you share videos on YouTube, and you know the power of blogging tools like WordPress or Blogger. So, your nonprofit is socially networked. In short, you’re well invested in Web 2.0. Now what?

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NetWits

OCTOBER 2, 2009

While their efforts are focused on encouraging local participation in the physical sense they’ve also made it possible for people to participate online through social media using sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. Let’s have a look.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Share what you do and ask for enewsletter subscriptions on social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Most social networking sites allow you to do some level of branding – whether it’s a a custom background on Twitter or a logo designed to work on your Facebook page you can make your brand presence known.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

How can each of you take your cause viral, whether it’s an exciting announcement, a newly released YouTube video, or the nonprofit you represent? Make sure to follow Darian Rodriguez Heyman on Twitter. So what’s the secret to unlocking the “Kevin Bacon effect,” AKA viral marketing? The answer is simple yet confounding: C+C+C = C.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Join us and get new ideas for connecting Facebook®, Twitter®, YouTube®, email and more. In this session, we’ll tackle best practices for multi-channel marketing to increase event recruitment, performance, and revenue. Charity Dynamics’ Donna Wilkins will help you beef up your event communication.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. TweetBeep is a good backup to capture mentions of your brand on Twitter. There are more tools out there than you can possibly make use of so I thought I’d make it easy and give you a jump start.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

As Anthony Sicola’s recently mentioned, fundraisers who use who use social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube increase fundraising results by up to 40%. Allow fundraising pages to be shared on Facebook and Twitter from their fundraising dashboard. Teach Them to Fundraise and Provide Samples.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Twitter – https://twitter.com/sandiegozoo. Twitter is becoming more and more of a new/information sharing service that allows nonprofits to quickly share information with their followers. Here are 4 things the San Diego Zoo does well with their Twitter account: Responding to your followers. YouTube – [link].

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Use social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Send emails to as many people as possible, multiple times. Customize their personal page with own story and picture. Belong to a team. If we create contests to encourage these behaviors in all fundraisers, it can help raise incremental revenue.

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