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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. 3) Creating a webpage on our website specifically for the social media community and offer Twitter backgrounds, avatars, copy and paste status updates/tweets and downloads for people to use and share. (4) Tags: The Book. YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. gid=104492. The least?

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. What's your take on Twitter for Nonprofits?

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. I think the NpTech tag helps provides a needle and thread to sew these patches together.

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