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

TechImpact

They’re busy retweeting, posting, sharing, pinning, and blogging on an array of social media websites and platforms across the Internet. But what social platform are they on the most? How do they use one platform over another? And what’s this I hear about teens leaving Facebook for other social networks, is this true?

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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What about those leaked reports from Facebook and Instagram?

Top Nonprofits

the pushback that these platforms and sort of the PR campaign that they’ve instituted to defend themselves against pretty indefensible actions. And then with the sort of evolution of the platform and the algorithm, and now the sophistication of the ads mechanism, what happened was that we found that this was not true.

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. The topic we explored was mobile fundraising, ranging from best practices, integration and why applications on phones haven’t taken off. What phones and apps are they using? Qwerty Monsters.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I waited to see if other nonprofits would embrace this emerging social media platform. Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers. My first experience was “What?” ” and could not figure it out.

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Text-to-Give TweetChat Recap

Tech Soup

Mobile phone ownership is reaching a critical mass worldwide. To begin with, the aforementioned high open rate applies to donor bases that might be otherwise hard to reach, such as teens and seniors. Most people bring their phones with them everywhere , making it easy to tap into the potential impulse nature of giving.

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