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Great animation about Facebook facts
Check out this great little animation (courtesy of The Guardian’s Data Blog) which really explains Facebook’s massive growth! … oops, for some reason WordPress is not letting me embed the video, but do follow the link – it’s well worth … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Infographic, Trends and Numbers
Tagged Facebook, social media statistics, video
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4 Ways to monitor your Twitter account
You tweet, you retweet, people tweet you… but it can be difficult to see how these patterns are changing over time. Just taking a snapshot of your numbers of followers once a month, or counting up how many retweets you … Continue reading
Posted in Tools, Trends and Numbers, Twitter
Tagged measure, monitor, social media for third sector, Twitter, Twitter tips
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The latest figures
Statistics are like buses: none are released for ages and then suddenly loads come at once. Or that’s how it seems this week, with new data on the user numbers for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube. So here we go: … Continue reading
Another survey of charities using social media, but what does this tell us?
Frogloop reports on the latest issue of the 2012 social networking benchmark survey, which is out this week. The slice of data covers January and February this year, and results from asking 3500 not-for-profit organisations about their social media habits, … Continue reading
Kony 2012: what can we learn from the world’s most viral video?
If you haven’t already watched the Kony 2012 video, then you have missed out: not only is this an extremely powerful and moving piece of film-making, but it is also the world’s most viral video – according to Mashable – … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Trends and Numbers, YouTube and Video
Tagged engagement, influencing, reach, social media for third sector, storytelling, video
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Update on Google+
Have you recently followed other charities and organisations in creating a Google+ page for your group? We have at GAVCA (and you can find it here, if you’re interested) but it’s probably fair to say that we are still considering … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Google+, Infographic, Trends and Numbers
Tagged G+, Google+, SEO, social media demographics, social media for third sector
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Chasing those metrics: what do followers mean?
Social media makes it easy for us to count the number of people who’ve liked our page, or who follow us on Twitter, or who’ve added us to one of their circles on Google+. This is all well and good, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Facebook, Monitoring, Trends and Numbers, Twitter
Tagged engagement, Facebook, like button, measure, monitor, reach, social media for third sector, Twitter
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Are you using G+?
I used to think that maintaining my organisation’s Facebook and Twitter accounts was probably enough to be going on with, especially with the recent changes to brand pages that both social networks are planning (see here for info from Mashable … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Google+, Trends and Numbers
Tagged G+, Google+, pinterest, social media for third sector, social media statistics
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This week’s Facebook updates
Never a week goes by without more updates and news from the mighty FB, so here’s a few tit bits that have come my way: Number one is a list of 10 bits of news about Facebook and its demographics, … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Trends and Numbers
Tagged Facebook, Facebook marketing, Facebook timeline, how to, SEO, social media for third sector
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Customer service using Facebook
Here’s an interesting post on the wondrous All Facebook: they have carried out a survey of nearly 1500 companies, asking about their customer service. Not only did they ask the companies to rate how excellent they felt their service was … Continue reading →