social media

Social Media Campaigns that Moms Love

April 15, 2010

Did Mom invent social media? Some say she did. And there is no arguing that she is driving it and helping it to evolve. There are 82 million moms across the U.S. of all ages. That’s right, 82 million. And 26 million of them are mommy bloggers. And they are grassroots, Oprah-like brand advocates with [...]

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SmartBlog Interviews Beth Kanter: What Nonprofits Need to Know About Social Media

March 12, 2010

Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest-running and most popular blogs for nonprofits and co-author of the forthcoming book, “The Networked Nonprofit,” to be published by J. Wiley in 2010. Beth is also the CEO of Zoetica, a company that serves nonprofits and socially [...]

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The Social Media Cheat Sheet

March 10, 2010

via thenextweb.com Posted via web from Posterous

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PolicyTool for Social Media

March 10, 2010

PolicyTool is a policy generator that simplifies the process of creating guidelines that respect the rights of your employees while protecting your brand online.* It’s easy. The streamlined process simply requires you to answer a brief questionnaire and provides you with a complete Social Media Policy customized to your company. PolicyTool has been developed by [...]

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Five Simple (& Fun) Ways to Promote Nonprofits on FourSquare

February 22, 2010

FourSquare is definitely starting to catch on with enterprising techie folks that love to be early adopters. That’s a good a sign. Most check-ins revolve around restaurants and cafes, but below are five simple ways you (and the nonprofit techies) can also use FourSquare to promote the nonprofits and causes your care about: via nonprofitorgs.wordpress.com [...]

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Fine-Tuning Your Social Media Profiles

February 10, 2010

1. Go with the Brill Street approach.  Say you’re the expert even if you’re not or at the risk of seeming plastic to the world around you.  LOTS of companies and people doing this. via hrcapitalist.com The HR Capitalist has a great take on what you should—and should not—be putting into your social media profiles, [...]

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FRONTLINE: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier [Watch Online]

February 4, 2010

via pbs.org I love Frontline. They produce some of the best journalism and each episode is always on a strikingly relevant topic. Their February 2nd episode digital_nation is no different, which poses the question, “Is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?” In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual [...]

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Social Media Consultants: Trust Your Gut

January 19, 2010

Doing business by believing in your intuition is the most important skill you can have. There’s a great deal of risk being taken in the new media/social media space, and it’s important that companies are willing to take those risks in order for the space to grow. I’m nervous about some of the guidance being [...]

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Just Saw Wicked for the Second Time

January 16, 2010

With my stress level at an all time high even before the semester starts, seeing Wicked for the second time tonight was just what I needed to bring me back down to earth. A gaggle of friends saw the touring show here in Syracuse. My first time seeing the show was in London last year. [...]

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Is Twitter’s growth slowing?

August 12, 2009

Compete.com just released data for the month of July and it appears that Twitter’s growth rate—measured as unique visitors—has taken a big hit. While Twitter grew 16.6% in June, the site slowed to a snail’s pace of just 1.25% in July. What does this mean for the previously declared fastest growing social media site on [...]

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