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Social Network Sites Dominate Web Visitor Results

According to Google’s ad planner, social network sites now account for more than 50% of all unique website visitors. This list, which is based on April 2010 data, “excludes adult sites, ad networks, domains that don’t have publicly visible content or don’t load properly, and certain Google sites.” The certain Google sites that were excluded were Google.com and Youtube. Orkut is a Google owned site and it made the list. Still, at more than 50% the majority of web visitors visit social network sites.

Of the top 100 websites, 7 are social media sites. In order they are

  1. Facebook 35.20% of all visitors (#1 overall)
  2. Myspace 4.70% (#26 overall)
  3. Orkut 2.90% (#45 overall)
  4. LinkedIn 2.50% (#56 overall)
  5. Hi5 2.20% (#63 overall)
  6. Renren 2.00% (#70 overall)
  7. Vkontakte.ru 1.70% (#81 overall)

Sites like Twitter, which ranked #18, were classified as an email and messaging site.

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A brief graph on current trends

Below is a chart showing how Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace compare in number of unique visitors in the past 13 months. Facebook and Twitter have grown while MySpace has been stagnant.

Does your own website meet this level of visitors? Why not harness it for your own benefit.

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Change.org’s premium service is now free for all nonprofits!

This is an email I got today that I wanted to share with our readers. Please visit the Change.org link listed below for more information. If you already use this service, please let us know.

Hello Nonprofit Admins,

Good news! The $20 monthly fee for our premium service is no more. Now all nonprofits on Change.org have the premium service toolset added to their Admin Dashboards. In addition to all the tools that came with the basic service, all nonprofits can now:

1) Create Actions, including email petitions that can empower and expand your base of supporters

2) Message all your supporters

3) Send supporter requests to recruit new members

4) Link to your profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

That’s just a small sampling of what your organization can now do on Change.org with the premium toolset. For a complete list and background on the enhancements, please see:

http://is.gd/vqbS

We also have a new feature for nonprofits on Change.org that is synched with Twitter and allows admins to ask the rapidly growing Change.org community for help with a specific need in 140 characters or less. These “Asks” can range from requests for volunteers to calls for immediate online action and will soon show up in numerous feeds throughout Change.org.

To view a feed of most recent “Asks” from all nonprofits on Change.org, go to: http://www.change.org/nonprofits. To post your own asks, simply go to your nonprofit homepage and make sure you’re logged in.

As a reminder, I give free Webinars every Wednesday that explain in detail the new toolset and how to fully maximize your organization’s presence on Change.org. If you know how to use the site and the tools correctly, your organization could have hundreds if not thousands of new supporters in just a few months – something we regularly see with organizations that engage the Change.org community. The Webinar schedule is listed on the right here: http://nonprofits.change.org

Finally, you may have noticed that a number of organizations such as Amnesty International http://www.change.org/amnestyusa have branded headers for their profiles. If you want to have your branding appear on your nonprofit’s header, just email us the design you’d like to use and we’ll upload it. The dimensions must be 939 pixels in width and no more that 150 pixels in height.

As always, I am here to help and hope to hear from you or see you on the site soon!

THANKS so much,

Heather


Heather Mansfield
Nonprofit Community Manager, Change.org
http://nonprofits.change.org

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How Facebook is Taking Over Our Lives

Here’s a nice story from Fortune magazine with charts regarding Facebook and how people are using it.

Because of the increase in users and increase in time spent on the Facebook site, you can really reach more of your market. According to TechCrunch, Facebook is now twice the size of MySpace. In addition to the user statistics, the link to TechCrunch includes the history of both social media sites.

from TechCrunch.com

from TechCrunch.com

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