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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: National Wildlife Federation. 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.

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BOOK RESEARCH: Which nonprofits do you think excel in their use social media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Humane Society , PETA , Oxfam , Invisible Children , and the National Wildlife Federation were the early adopters of MySpace and social media in the nonprofit sector, and all of them have gone on to build massive communities on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube over the last five years. Tags: The Book.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Related Link: Social Media for Nonprofits Book.

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To the Small Nonprofits on the Social Web: 5,000 is the Magic Number

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I’ve observed this phenomenon on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, and Foursquare. Large national and international nonprofits have little problem reaching this benchmark, but small and some medium-size nonprofits will. It may take a year or two, but if you follow the best practices in this book, you will reach that magic number.

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From 2005 to 2015: The Radical Effect of Social Media on Nonprofit Web Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies. National Audubon Society 2015. National Audubon Society 2005. United Nations 2015. United Nations 2005. Nonprofits pioneered social media. Human Rights Watch 2005. web.archive.org/www.hrw.org. audubon.org.

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Social Media: Who Should Navigate the Ship

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As part of Microsoft Outlook 2010, features allow people to connect with their Facebook and MySpace accounts (the service already allowed you to connect Outlook to LinkedIn). In other words, people are now relying on their friends to recommend them content more often than searching for it themselves.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 x 10 Ten NpTech Tagged Items About Social Media and Nonprofits That You Can Check Out in Ten Minutes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Rigby of Mobile Voter, and the folks from Rock the Vote have just written a new book, Mobilizing Generation 2.0: If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. Okay, building the mashup will probably take you longer than ten minutes, but $10,000.

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