NCE Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Back in November, I wrote about the introduction of Twitter lists. I wanted to share this helpful video on Twitter lists. Now that Twitter lists have matured over 3+ months, people are finally figuring out their true impact. Are you on any Twitter lists? Share your experiences with lists in the comments section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

Many government leaders in Rwanda have embraced Twitter, both in the “official’ capacity, tweeting from their Ministry’s profile for formal communication or often from a personally branded profile. There are many women in leadership government positions in Rwanda, and many are on Twitter.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Here are a few tips by channel to optimize your social content for search discoverability and SEO: Twitter Instagram Facebook Additional support: For tips on how to optimize your presence on Tiktok, see here. Publishing Experts recommend publishing on Twitter 1-5 times a day for optimal performance. Twitter moves at the speed of news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Dan Michel, Digital Marketing Manager, Feeding America Twitter: @dpmichel. Dan is the Digital Marketing Manager for Feeding America where he oversees the execution of their external digital strategy which includes social media. We saw a lot of interest and click thrus from Twitter particularly.&#

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Search engine result pages are difficult to grasp and take complete control of, while social media feeds become more saturated with our peers, Even more difficult and mysterious, especially to many of us in the nonprofit sector, is the search engine and where it places our websites and social media outlets on those first few pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. These numbers are based on the performance of Nonprofit Tech for Good, and of course, vary depending upon how your nonprofit uses Facebook and Twitter. For example: 1. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs.

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TechImpact

APRIL 17, 2014

Reach can be generated by purchasing Facebook advertisement, achieving organic reach, and having users like, comment, or share your post. By sharing, blogging, and Retweeting consistent topics, your feeds and posts will organically generate more traffic because people will know what to expect, and seek your feed out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2017

Still in beta for most, LinkedIn is slowly rolling out a new design for Pages, Admin Tools, the News Feed, and LinkedIn Profiles. Engagement and/or click-throughs are often higher on LinkedIn Pages than on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Clearly, LinkedIn has big plans for 2017. linkedin.com/company/nonprofitorgs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. I interviewed Arlene to learn more about they’re measuring their Twitter campaign and what they’re learning. What is the objective of the Twitter campaign? We identified two quantitative success measures, Twitter impressions and content sharing.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 11, 2022

While both Facebook and Twitter have fairly robust built-in scheduling tools, in this post we’re listing the top platforms that let you plan and schedule social media content for all your social media profiles from one place: 1. Let us know in the comments. The only ingredient missing now is your story !

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). – eMarketer -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 29, 2016

Of course, as with anything new on the Internet, there’s an obvious learning curve to observe, but the possibilities are seemingly endless: not only can people post their latest up-to-the-second video feeds, but the feature is available for use on any device from desktops to tablets to smartphones and even drones. Give viewers the heads up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

" An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Finding Feeds. Netvibes will let you track all kinds of things online, all by using RSS feeds or ready-built widgets. As far as the email vs feed option - we are using Netvibes so you can cut down on email! Choose the “feed&# option and then hit save on that alert. Twitter Search. Add Feeds to Netvibes.

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Care2

MARCH 8, 2010

In the past year, registered Twitter accounts have grown more than 1,500%, according to Biz Stone, Co-Founder of Twitter. So if you can only carve out 20 minutes a day to follow nonprofit leaders and thinkers discussing nonprofit issues on Twitter, who would they be? Feel free to add your top picks too in the comments section.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

Be sure to interact with community comments by liking or commenting back. Be sure to keep a careful eye for comments that are inflammatory. Depending on your capacity and goals, you should set a regular cadence for checking comments and direct messages. Don’t just copy and paste the same response to all comments.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Is it simply the number of followers you have on Twitter, or how many people "like" you on Facebook? With that in mind, the AIDS.gov team compiled some advice about what it takes to use Twitter effectively to engage with our audiences. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Look no further!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

They can post more often with less risk of getting hidden or unliked, their fan base grows faster, and they often have great content to share in status updates that easily inspire comments and likes. Their fans will see your activity in their News Feeds and some will become fans of your page as well as a result.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 22, 2010

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. I would have been incredibly annoyed if at 10,000 fans the Page would have lost News Feed exposure. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

It’s softer around the edges than Facebook and Twitter, and it’s more focused on images than words. Twitter: At 330 million users per month, Twitter feels like a fading platform in comparison to the others. When you push out a fundraising campaign, Twitter probably won’t be your best platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2008

We agreed that it was much easier to share information on Twitter, that the immediate gratification was addicting, but that retrieval on Twitter is a not easy. In the comments of a Read/Write post, Vanderwal.net also observes this problem. Like tagging for Twitter, hashtags are terms you put after a # in a post.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2012

A journalist was kicked off of Twitter, then reinstated , for including the email address of an NBC executive while complaining vociferously about NBC’s coverage of the games. Facebook is crunching analyzing people post to Facebook about the games and they are broadcasting NBC’s video feeds. Are you staying the same?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Accidentally, of course.

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. Searching on Podcasts.Apple.com and Podcasts.google.com and Spotify can help you create a contact list of potential list of podcasts (quick hack: most podcasts list the <itunes:owner> email in their feed).

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

You can post status updates, leave comments on other people's profile (think: wall). From time to time I will pull up a user profile to monitor what folks are doing in Salesforce since I have feeds turned on for Accounts and Opportunities, but that's about it. I posted on-topic comments in Groups and posted to profiles.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

I'm not sure what Smith's book has to do with twittering and tagging , but there is a connection. Twitter is the here and now, archiving the past is not built into the design. Twitter helps you connect with people or a community and somehow ignites sharing. Chel Pixel has another method that shared in the comments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter is impossible to ignore. In response to Twitter's influence, we have launched five company Twitter feeds, @ForumOne , @OCReport , @DataMasher , @Legistalker , and @ProjectSpaces (a combined feed is here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. The other day a commenter asked me if I could write something that offered some practical how to listening tips as well as applying it. I'm starting with Twitter (don't know what Twitter is?

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NetWits

JUNE 8, 2012

Try these easy steps to showing your timeliness: Utilize automatic feeds. It’s not enough to have a Facebook page or a Twitter account. Use the Facebook and twitter widgets to pull social posts to your website for fresh content and relevant, engaging activity. Add dates to content posted to the homepage. Tweet, blog and post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

For giggles, I posted after business hours and noticed an uptick in comments. In the comments, Debra Askanase pointed to her post that detailed the study’s findings in the research study. So, I not only got more comments, but they added a lot of value. They also can get collapsed in the News Feed (e.g.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Twitter search is your best friend for finding out what’s going on in the real time conversation world of microblogging. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left.

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