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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

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Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. Please summarize your ROI.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI.

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11 TwtPoll Results Nonprofits Can Use to Plan 2010 Communications Strategies

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7) Is your nonprofit monitoring your Website stats to see how much traffic is coming from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn Groups, etc.? [ [link] ]. 9% MySpace. 9% Flickr. Related Posts: Tags: ROI (Return on Investment). [ [link] ]. 28% 2,501-5,000. 22% 501-2,500. 19% Less than 500. 16% 5,001-10,000. 25% Facebook.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

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At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. The media had made Myspace, and social networking in general, out to be dangerous, life-threatening even. Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. Get training.

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

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Back in 2006 when I joined the organization we had a MySpace page with 25 friends. 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. Please summarize your ROI.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace). They move with you from one site to the next and maybe in the case of Myspace, back again.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), Before Myspace then Facebook and then Twitter, I was a voracious reader. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. I am firm believer in the math of the social media – as your communities grow, so does your ROI.