I’ve written about Reddit before in passing, having mentioned them in a post covering the top 5 social networks on the rise earlier this month, but I think it’s now time to take a good look at the social media service. What is it? Reddit is a place where the latest interesting and popular online phenomena are posted and discussed. Reddit more...
Update: An addition has been made to this post to include all the stats from this morning’s royal wedding, which basically took over the internet. The top search queries, mentions, and trends were all related to the royal wedding on Twitter, Google and Facebook. Twitter – all 10 trending topics worldwide were related to the wedding. Facebook more...
Last week Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Service experienced some trouble, causing many popular online properties to experience major downtime. Reddit, HootSuite, and Quora were all affected. This occurred last Thursday, April 21st, just before the long weekend. Because I use HootSuite to schedule Agile Dude’s tweets on a daily basis, I was in utter more...
All the popular social tools now offer some sort of advertising opportunities for businesses, the trick is to understand them and choose the tool most suitable for your business. In this post I’ll focus on the tools most suitable for B2B’s, since it can often be tricky for these types of businesses to see the benefit of utilizing social more...
Barack Obama spoke at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California last week about a number of political issues. The event was streamed live on Facebook and was hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Many are already drawing conclusions from last week’s Facebook town hall meeting that Obama will make heavy use of social media in the next election. The more...
Social Media and Non-Profit Organizations – Case Studies: Guy at Home in his Underwear + World Food Programme
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Mark aka. “The Guy At Home In His Underwear” is a Toronto native and a testicular cancer survivor. He was given 25 days to raise money for testicular cancer ‘one Facebook friend at a time’. The challenge was to get 25,000 ‘Likes’, and last 25 days at home in his underwear. If Mark could complete this challenge then Stanfield’s would donate more...
American Red Cross currently utilizes a variety of social media platforms. They are all clearly outlined and easily visible on their website www.redcross.org/connect: Figure 1 American Red Cross Social Media Home Page Included as part of their strategy is a blog with content that range from updates on their relief efforts to more light hearted material more...
Adding to my last post on the demographics of donors, and the generational differences, let’s now explore the ways to engage them online. Once you decide your organization is ready to take advantage of social media for your cause, here are some tips to get you started: Website Your website is the central hub for all your online efforts. It should more...
Online giving is the next wave of social media for Not for Profit organizations. Although a little slower to catch up to the curve, we are beginning to see some large steps in this space to utilize the possibilities that social media and a digital presence can provide NFP’s. First let’s look at how people engage with non-profits, and which generations more...
We’ve decided to build a blog series for the upcoming long weekend focusing on Social Media in the non-profit sphere. We’ll look at donor demographics, focusing on how people from different age groups interact with non-profits online, including the latest trends in that industry. We’ve also compiled a post that focuses solely on tips more...
