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

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My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes. I would say MySpace has dropped off the most for us. For my role, social media is only about 30% of my job – I manage our paid online advertising strategy, SEO, and web analytics strategy in addition to social media. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?

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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. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ?Book

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

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The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Related Links: Book Research & Interviews. ? Book Tour ?. ? Book Tour Sponsors ?. Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when?

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How Are Nonprofits Feeling About Social Media? Inspired? Bored? Overwhelmed?

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Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace all launched in 2003. However, there are some days when I want nothing more than to escape from my computer and long for the days when I could relax offline and actually read a book. Are you wanting to do more, but finding it difficult to add social media to an already packed job description?

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Taproot Foundation

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Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Megan does a fantastic job of keeping the content on link Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn fresh. YouTube: youtube.com/thetaprootfoundation. LinkedIn: taproot-foundation. Jumo: [link].

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've received LinkedIn alerts from contacts in the nonprofit space who are distributing a job description or recruiting. I installed the LinkedIn tool for Outlook so when I add people to my Outlook address book (via Plaxo), I can also easily add them to my LinkedIn. Well, she did ! How might I harvest this contact in the future?

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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It’s commendable, but after four years of recession and the likelihood that you generously added social media to your already packed job description without compensation, it’s not sustainable and being overworked and underpaid will only lead to burnout and resentment. 4) Read more books. Reading books does that.