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5 more useful things we learned about Facebook this week
Like it or loathe it, Facebook is the big beast in the social media jungle. With 900 million users across the globe, and updates to its services coming thick and fast, it is the social network to which we often … Continue reading
Quick round-up of Pinterest posts
Pinterest is still the darling of the social media bloggers, and if you are a fan then check out these articles for more dets about your favourite new tool. Mashable wants to tell us What People Are Pinning on Pinterest … Continue reading
Quietly Revolutionary or Quite Rubbish? How charities are using QR codes
QR, or ‘Quick Read’ codes are appearing all over the place: just recently I’ve seen them on a poster advertising new timetables at the railway station, on cookery programme on TV and in every magazine you open. If you’ve got … Continue reading
Hashtags, Twitter-chats and a sense of community
Keeping an eye on hashtags that are meaningful to your organisation’s work is a great way of basically eavesdropping on conversations out there on Twitter. It allows you to get in touch with people and let them know about your … Continue reading
Posted in Case Studies, Twitter
Tagged community, employee engagement, hashtags, influencing, reach, social media for third sector, Twitter, Twitter-chat
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Why charities are social media successes
Stand up and be proud, fellow members of the voluntary sector: what we may lack in size, spend and staff we seem to make up in imagination,effectiveness, and committment to our work… and don’t just take my word for it, … Continue reading
Posted in Case Studies, YouTube and Video
Tagged employee engagement, Fundraising, influencing, reach, social media for third sector, video
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Community pages: pirate, privateer or problem?
I have been busily reading Olivier Blanchard’s book ‘Social Media ROI’. One of the many useful points that Blanchard makes is that organisations should view people who are already blogging, posting and tweeting about that organisation’s work not as uncontrollable … Continue reading
Putting the ‘team’ into your social media campaign
It’s funny how things cluster together: no sooner than I had started to think that GAVCA’s social media policy was probably due for a bit of a spring clean than I came across this excellent article by Maria Ogneva, writing … Continue reading
Great guide to how not to tweet
Thanks to those guys at Concrete Solutions CIC (and to Paul Webster for the link) for this amusing guide to how to make the least out of your organisation’s Twitter account. Read it here!
Posted in How it Works, Tools
Tagged employee engagement, fun, reputation, social media for third sector, Twitter
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Are you thinking ahead?
Putting together a coherent and effective social media strategy – or even a simple social media plan – can be tricky, especially when we spend most of our time handling day-to-day things rather than planning far ahead. But without a … Continue reading →