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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Creating Video Content : 15 Hours Weekly.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

A social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning might be a tool to leverage your talents. If you are a visual person, check out photo or video sharing. YouTube , Vimeo ) Photo sharing (i.e. Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Are you a natural writer? A blog may be a place to start.

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Boston Media Makers Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by David Tames from his flickr stream. David Tames took notes here and, as always, has a set of gorgeous photos. The site content will be moderated and if inappropriate (off topic) content is posted - it will be removed - but that long term the site will be community moderated. I always learn so much when I attend.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. In A Museum?

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Get Involved in Gustav Online Volunteer Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Christine As you know by now, Hurricane Gustav looks even more destructive than Katrina (see this round up from Lisa Stone, BlogHer , of the news reports and links). Gustav08 on Ning. He is hoping it will work like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies.

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Collaboration for Funders: Use the Right Tools

Forum One

Many community platforms, whether simple or complex, offer a large number of options for user interaction: user-generated content contributions, discussions, groups, wikis, blogs, real-time communication, Twitter-like updates, photo galleries, collaborative file management, etc.

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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. There's also dogooder.tv

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