Category Archives: Social Media
Social Media Tracking Toolbox
Javascript is disabled. To see the toolbox, please enable Javascript or see the toolbox page. As social media tools and services continue to pop up every other day, it can become a lot of work just keeping up with what people are saying about your nonprofit. Many people have offered lists, solutions and techniques for […]
Tool Tidbits 07.30.09
Facebook Redmine Basecamp Trac Intervals Loop11 Treejack Hello, SSC-ers! I thought you might be interested in a few posts about various tool-related topics. Let the tool education begin! Social Network Users Double in US Mashable‘s Adam Ostrow looks at Foster Research’s new report about American online behavior. About 1/3 of Americans visit social networks like […]
Facebook vs. Twitter for Nonprofits
In the social media world, arguably the two highest profile tools are Facebook and Twitter. Both have become powerful tools for nonprofits not only for fundraising, but also for posting relevant news and connecting to groups of people otherwise unreached. However, while the two are often used together in the same sentence, Twitter and Facebook […]
Open Source Facebook-ing
Firefox Songbird WordPress While the general population probably still has no idea what it means for something to be “open source“, the movement is growing. Firefox, Songbird and WordPress, among others, are software tools that are increasing the visibility of the open source value system which emphasizes open access to information about a product, most […]
Social Media 2009?
As we flip the calendars to January 2009, I wanted to showcase some of the tool predictions that people have speculated about. Beth Kanter posted a great summary of Peter Kim‘s Social Media Predictions of 2009 which collects predictions from a number of social media and nonprofit tech types. But, since we’re all about the […]
Social Media Listening
At Social Source Commons, we’ve begun to kick up our Social Media presence. This means, among other things, dipping our collective toe into Twitter with SSC_Tweets and working on becoming more active in the NPTech blogging community. Anyone working in nonprofit social media (or social media in general) can tell you that the trick to […]