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Tag: social media
YouTube Seeks to Improve Nonprofit Videos
YouTube in recent weeks has turned its focus to helping nonprofits create more powerful, effective videos, with a new “playbook” guide and a chance to participate in a one-day video boot camp in San Francisco. The free 24-page guide, “YouTube for Good,” helps nonprofits devise attention-grabbing names and code their videos’ descriptions to make them… Continue reading YouTube Seeks to Improve Nonprofit Videos
Kari Saratovsky – the originial @socialcitizen – launches new strategy consulting company geared towards millennial engagement
KDS Strategies provides solutions to national and local organizations with a focus on innovative program design, strategic communications, and social media strategy development, all with a unique understanding of next generation engagement. From KDS’s first blog post: With your help, we will begin to fill this space with authentic conversations that inspire generosity (giving and… Continue reading Kari Saratovsky – the originial @socialcitizen – launches new strategy consulting company geared towards millennial engagement
Social Media Increases Alumni Engagement more than 400%
The Thunderbird School of Global Management enjoyed a 400 percent increase in the number of donors – many of them alumni – to its annual end-of-fiscal-year campaign 2010. Everything they did that year was the same, with one exception – Thunderbird had a small team of social media managers creating and monitoring conversations with the school’s supporters… Continue reading Social Media Increases Alumni Engagement more than 400%
I don’t know much about Disqus
but I think I installed it, and I think that means that non-Tumblr people can comment on posts. Lovely readers - please try it, especially if you have really nice things to say. Tech people - how do I made this look more obvious / correct, and am I using it correctly? Social media is… Continue reading I don’t know much about Disqus
I have done nothing proactive on Google+.
However, 52 people have added me. I do not feel more looped in to their lives. Further, of those 52 people, I do not know 4, which means 7.7% of people who think I’m in one of their circles for whatever reason (spam or otherwise) are not reciprocal friends per my count. Of the remaining… Continue reading I have done nothing proactive on Google+.
Social Media + Philanthropy = (xx OR xy)
A recently published study shows that men and women give differently both in their motivations and in their categories of support. Big surprise that women give more to breast cancer and bullying and men give more to prostate cancer and the Tea Party, and that everyone feels cause fatigue when they’re hit over the head… Continue reading Social Media + Philanthropy = (xx OR xy)
Social Media as News Platform…Watch Out!
Good thoughts and an important reminder about having a discerning eye when consuming media (you’re doing it right now). It’s always scary to me that people don’t look at sources or ask important questions about unsupported information. Be saavy, people. And education activists, is there anything being done to teach media smarts to kids in… Continue reading Social Media as News Platform…Watch Out!
How long can you go without IRL interaction?
Cristin (@csnorine) is living for the entirety of November in a class showcase in front of a store. Yea, public display of life has been done before in museums and stuff, but never really with this spin of allowing technology as the vector for interacting with the world. It’s pretty interesting…I’ll be curious to hear… Continue reading How long can you go without IRL interaction?
Jen Bokoff 