It would be the end of the year without another Top Ten list. NCE Social Media is no exception.
Here are the top 10 posts from the past year.
10. Google+
9. Social Media Etiquette
8. 10 Commandments of Posting Online
7. Facebook’s EdgeRank
6. Megaphones
5. Social Media as a Fundraising Tool for 2011
4. Setting Up Facebook Fan Pages
3. New Facebook Groups
2. Share Buttons and Bars
1. Is YouTube Making You Money?
What were your favorites?
Filed under Education and Training, Facebook, Google, Marketing and Awareness, Microblog, Tools
1) Twitter has started to email account users when someone retweets your tweets. Assuming you check your email often or get prompted when you get a new email, it makes it a little easier to know when someone has retweeted your work.
2) Twitter is buying Tweetdeck. If you use Tweetdeck already, you shouldn’t notice much change.
3) Who has rights to photos you post on social media? A woman posted a photo of the latest shuttle launch on a social media site. News agencies picked it up and used it but few asked permission. This has opened up the debate of who owns the photos, videos, and anything else you post to social media. You should read the privacy and permissions policies for each social media tool/platform/product you use to know.
4) Hashtags continue to be important in social media. I’ve discussed them in the past. Here’s a list of 30 hashtags you may want to follow that are specific to nonprofits.
5) People often ask me what is the future of social media? Is it a semantic web? Is it mashing up current tools? Is it a new and easy way to measure social media? Yes, Yes and Yes. What are your thoughts on the future of social media in the near and distant future?
Paper.li is a web-based tool, that is free, that you can use to create a daily paper of your Facebook and or Twitter feeds. The paper could also have a morning and evening edition or be weekly. You may also even set up a paper for a specific hashtag or keyword that is of interest to you such as this one. You may also have multiple papers.
I like Paper.li because it organizes the posts made by people you follow into categories. When people post links to photos or videos, it adds those too. Paper.li allows you to embed your daily paper on your website. It also pushes a daily notification letting your followers on Facebook and or Twitter know it has been updated. Here is a link to a copy of my Paper.li daily paper.
Here’s a video on how it works.
If you sign up for it, let us know. I’m happy to share your Paper.li daily news links with others.
Filed under Education and Training, Facebook, Microblog, Tools
Ryan Kuder wrote a post on ZDNet explaining why small businesses need social advocates. You know what, nonprofits need them too. In fact, we need as many as we can get!
If a tree falls in the woods but no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Well that’s the same with social media. If you post something on social media but no one hears or shares it is your message being heard? Without advocates our messages would not be viral. Think about it.
How are your advocates talking about you and sharing your information socially?
The Chronicle of Philanthropy hosted an online forum led by Claire Diaz Ortiz, Twitter’s top person working with nonprofits on social innovation. The forum focused specially on how to use Twitter as an advocacy tool.
Here’s a link to the forum with the transcript of the proceedings. Please note the forum was held by having people use Twitter to post their questions and thus this is a story with a Twitter feed. It is the Twitter feed that you’ll want to pay attention to…
How do you use Twitter and other social media platforms as tools for advocacy? Have you found them effective? Please share your experiences in the comments section.
Filed under Education and Training, Microblog
So you think you’re a Twitter guru. Do you know how to use their Advanced Search Tools to find what you seek?
Here’s a nice brief video from Mashable that demonstrates how to use Twitter’s Advanced Search Tools.
Enjoy!
A new report by Sysomos has found that when you send a tweet it will mostly likely be retweeted within the first hour of posting. After that it likely will not be retweeted. Apparently, after an hour it’s old news and you can use it to line the bird cage.
Are you measuring how people are retweeting your own tweets? Do you find that they retweet it within an hour? Are they only retweeting after work hours or on certain days of the week? In the comments section, let us know when people retweet your posts. If you need help seeing when people retweet your posts, check out our past post on tools that can help you post to social media. These tools allow you to see retweets, too.
You've only got 60 minutes - image from Sysomos
Recently I gave a presentation on privacy and social media for ACHIEVA’s free webinar series. Privacy is a major issue for families and individuals we serve. Posting private information on social media sites takes that to a whole new level.
A copy of the recording should be up shortly but in the mean time here are the slides from my presentation.
Filed under Education and Training, Facebook, Microblog, Research
Twitter just had a conference, for people who develop applications for Twitter, called Chirp. Here is a video from this conference of will.i.am from the music group Black Eyed Peas discussing how Twitter allows him to engage with his constituents through social media.
Also here is a link a video of Twitter’s co-founder, Ev Williams, at the Chirp conference discussing Twitter. It’s almost 45 minutes in length.
