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#GivingTuesday Lights Up Generosity (and Time Square)!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hashtag, #GivingTuesday, was trending on Twitter. As some nonprofit insiders complained, #GivingTuesday making too much noise. Using statistics only from highest-level influencers, #GivingTuesday had a reach to over 425 million individuals on Twitter, and over 300 million on Facebook. On Tuesday,Dec.3rd,

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

&# to help understand the relationship between online and offline protests. As Julian points, out there is a danger of slanting the resulting story so it either over-hyped or insulting. The #jan25 Twitter hashtag also has examples of the State Department’s Arab Twitter Diplomacy. It is a firehouse, uncurated list.

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Community Matters, Even at SxSW

Forum One

We heard a lot about the use of crowdsourcing, the latest Twitter apps, and why content strategy is so important. But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. Tags: Influence Events Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media.

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Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin: Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How can we use Twitter? Is that Twitter follower also on the direct mail list? Hope from the Hype So why does social networking matter? And it is the lingua franca for dealing with Generation Y and younger-minded supporters. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real.

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Guest Post: Top 40 Countdown at the Worcester City Museum

Museum 2.0

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. We also sent out a weekly press release about the new countdown and announced the new number one on Twitter.

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Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Myths & How To Ensure Success

The Modern Nonprofit

Don’t focus on the thousands of friends they may have on Facebook and Twitter; you want them to focus only on their 100 or 150 closest friends. You’re not going to over-hype a message to your mother or your very best friend. That little progress bar, as that grows, there’s a psychological kind of influence that has on potential donors.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Get them on Facebook and Twitter.