Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Perhaps you need to look existing secondary research on demographics and characteristics of users (see this post for some places to start finding free information). You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

In January, 2009, the Pew and American Life project released a report on Adults and Social Networking Use mentioning that more older adults have set up profiles on social networking sites, but that younger people more likely to be using social networking sites regularly. They are not just posting photos of their grandkids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The demographics of the room was 35% Gen Z, 10% Gen Y, 15% Gen X, and 40% babyboomers like me. But it also gave me an idea for a small group exercise or even an icebreaker where you might have people take a quiz or have the technographic profiles listed on butchblock sheets on the wall and have people stand in front of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. It will run on MySpace. Enter one site at time based on how well the demographics fits with your targeted audience. Don't sit set up the profile and abandon it - it isn't a billboard.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

It’s clearly one of the best channels that a nonprofit can use to reach this demographic. They live, eat, and breathe social media in its various forms – from Facebook and MySpace to Twitter and YouTube. Social media is a part of their everyday life. Telemarketing? Forget it. (By What’s cool these days?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The true mystery lies in how we tap into this power and harness the vast WWW for our personal needs, whether they be to engage constituents, make money for a business, tap into a new demographic for a cause – the list could go on forever - and how to take what seem like highly successful anomalies and turn them into models to follow.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older. A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. More than 3.5

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5 Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older More than 3.5

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

If you have both critics and spectators in your visitor demographic, you have fertile ground for ratings and reviews. You can check out Forrester's social profile tool for a rough sense of your visitors' predilections. Is there an unauthorized MySpace page about your museum or some key element of your content?

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

While the exact demographic numbers are somewhat disputed , without a doubt the typical user is a young student. Chief among them is that when a user installs the application, they get a charity badge / search engine right in their profile. Colman We are just starting to stick our toes into the social network waters.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

While the exact demographic numbers are somewhat disputed , without a doubt the typical user is a young student. Chief among them is that when a user installs the application, they get a charity badge / search engine right in their profile. Colman We are just starting to stick our toes into the social network waters.

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