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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Twitter should be used for cultivation, not broadcasting.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This study shows that Twitter has become a formidable communication tool allowing the broadcast of short messages to millions of followers. The study’s author, Matthias Lufkens , says that the most successful organisations are those that use Twitter to make connections and tell stories, not just broadcast news.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.