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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Memejacking: Does Your Nonprofit Dare?

Tech Soup

Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. The Facebook post garnered 5,365* likes, 2,279 shares, and 364 comments, while the tweet got 506 retweets, 58 replies, and 358 favorites. Meme Me Up, Scotty. Engagement.

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Your Audience’s Content Is King (and Your Content Is Subservient to It)

Connection Cafe

We know from past research that awareness of being a subject can bias the results of our research. Because workers were getting attention, no matter the nature of the changing conditions, they reacted positively. They know their actions are being monitored. worker productivity improved precisely because they were being studied.

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4 Step by Step Engagement Strategies for Nonprofit Websites

Connection Cafe

” I’ve identified 4 definitions as being the most useful in the online marketing context: To hold the attention of. Your first goal should be to hold the attention of the user by attracting them with high-quality content and stories bring value to your audience. Merriam Webster gives us 19 definitions for the word “engage.”

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. She has already increased brand awareness for Green Hour and every day reaches new and different audiences. Comment on the post and thank the writer for the mention. Test for What Works.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Many people aren't even aware that the Find My iPhone feature on iPhones and iPads is regularly syncing your data and your location with the cloud.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Megabloggers like Tim O’Reilly , Om Malik , Austin Hill , Michael Geist , Tara Hunt , Mathew Ingram and others generated a ton of traffic and awareness. Viral spread versus megablogger attention.

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