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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: National Wildlife Federation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Who maintains your social media campaigns? I am the only person who is paid to work on social media full-time.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unless you are an Internet personality, an organization with a full-time community manager or a professional online content publisher, there is not enough time to succeed in the multitude of social networks AND manage your own social content. This means choices will be made. Google+ will add to that competitiveness.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participate: Is joining the conversation with your audience. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. 5 hours per week).

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10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project

Have Fun - Do Good

What is the goal I'm trying to achieve by using social media? Who is my audience? You may be able to achieve your goal, and reach your audience simply by commenting and participating on social networks that already exist. How much time do I have to spend on social media? StumbleUpon , Delicious ) Wiki (i.e.

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

As social media grows in popularity, one fact cannot be ignored: if used well, it can generate impressive amounts of traffic and increase engagement around your cause or organization. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Know Your Goals.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat Recap: Tagging

Tech Soup

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. The campaign.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

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The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. You may find better success participating in a niche social network like Changents or Gather.

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