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Social Networks vs. Real Life Networks

Wild Apricot

How can we identify the "influencers"? Which social media tools are best? Tags: Non-profit technology nptech online community Google Non-profit Communications research. How can we keep our personal and professional lives separate online? read more ).

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5 Social Media Stats That’ll Help Your Nonprofit Understand Audiences

TechImpact

Marketers from the nonprofit sector and the for-profit sector alike are attempting to harness the power of social media to connect with these audiences. But what social platform are they on the most? And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true?

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4 Facts About How Millennials Use Twitter

TechImpact

With 26% of all millennials actively using Twitter , and 59% having an account on the most pervasive social media network in the world, leveraging the influence of this social platform is imperative to your nonprofit’s effectiveness at penetrating millennials. Millennials check Twitter whenever they check their phone.

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7 Ways To Make Your Nonprofit’s Google+ Posts More Engaging

TechImpact

Google+ is still very new in terms of a social network, but more and more people are moving towards the new social realm. To get started on Google+, The Social Media Hat recommends using the G+ button directly from your blog to share to your nonprofits Google+ network, that way all the +1s transfer to the blog!

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Leverage Your Social Influence to Raise Money

Wild Apricot

This guest post by Ja-Naé Duane, explains how you can leverage your social networks to raise money.( As a small member-based or non-profit organization, you know that it can feel like pulling teeth to find the funding necessary to reach your goals. read more ).

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Nonprofits Value a Facebook Like at $214.81

NetWits

While we were there, Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. As social media, marketing and communications, and fundraising types continue to download and read the report we’re seeing more interest in the value nonprofits are placing on a Facebook Like (i.e.

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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

Submitted by Steve MacLaughlin, publisher of Connections For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using social media and social networking in their organizations. Friendraising Not Fundraising If the reason why you want to use social networks is just to raise money, then stop now.