Google “best times to post on social media” and you’ll find a plethora of answers. (Our personal favorite comes from Sprout Social which breaks it down by industry.)...
As I write this we are over halfway through 2019 and the dawn of a new year and decade is all but shining. When I think back over the last 10 years, 2010 doesn’t seem all that long ago but my, how things have changed...
If you’re having trouble keeping track of social media trends you aren’t alone. Luckily we’ve found some great resources for social media training and updates....
Facebook Jail. If you’re a frequent Facebook user, you’ve heard of this figurative prison in which users who violate Facebook standards are held by being temporarily banned from posting, liking, commenting or sharing until Facebook feels like the user has learned their lesson. ...
What a year it’s been for social media marketing! This year’s campaigns have been more extra than ever--extra fun, extra user-friendly, extra engaging, and, for some, extra controversial (lookin’ at you, Nike and Snapchat). In part one of this two-part mini-series, we’re taking a look...
Marketers have been honing their social media skills for well over ten years. Yet everyday nonprofit communications teams hear well-meaning suggestions from co-workers, board members and even dear Aunt Sally. While it may feel like you're working in a silo pecking out social media updates, creating the perfect ad and carefully targeting an audience, you are not alone. In fact, most of us feel your pain because we’ve heard that awful advice ourselves.
Because we all need to take a break, roll our eyes and even giggle a little, we’ve compiled the top 12 worst social media advice we’ve received for you to enjoy.
In an earlier blog, I described some interesting tips I learned in a social media workshop at a nonprofit leadership conference earlier this month. Bill Natalzia Northeast Regional Director of Celebrate Recovery did an excellent job. There was plenty of great information in the workshop, and I was glad I scarfed down my turkey sandwich and skipped half my lunch break to get a good seat.
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Negative comments, tweets, and posts on your nonprofit’s social media page can range from ruining your morning to ruining your career. Often the mission of a nonprofit centers around a divisive issue. You’re passionate about providing services to those you help and telling your success stories, but that segment of the population who is just as passionate about opposing you will eventually find you. You can ignore someone’s posts on their own Facebook or Twitter feed, but how you handle the situation when they bring it to your feed says a lot about you and your organization.
Last week, I had the opportunity to be packed in a tiny orange room with about 100 other people for a workshop at a leadership conference for a nonprofit organization that works with addicts and domestic abuse survivors. The speaker, Bill Natalzia Northeast Regional Director of Celebrate Recovery, and staff did their best to cram as many of us in as possible.
Three years ago, a European study found that teenagers were leaving Facebook for other social sites like Twitter, Instagram, and SnapChat. It was suspected that as older users began setting up accounts, teens sought a platform where they could hang out online with their friends without their parents seeing everything on their feed. This conclusion the led the anthropologist on the research team, Daniel Miller a professor of material culture of University College London to pronounce Facebook as “dead and buried” to the Millennial generation.