social media for nonprofits
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Current trends, including examples of (mainly) local nonprofit use of social media as well as links to excellent online resources.TRANSCRIPT
Social Media for Nonprofits
March 2010
As of December 2009,
74% of American adults
use the internet
Up from 67% in 2005
Pew Internet & American Life Project (December 2009)
In 2005, 8% of online adults had a profile on an social network site. 35% had one in January 2009.
Today, 45% do.
Pew Internet & American Life Project (September 2009)
LinkedIn Median age is 39
14% of adult social network users
Pew Internet & American Life Project (October 2009)
Facebook Median age is 33
73% of adult social network users
Twitter Median age is 31
19% of adult social network users
MySpace Median age is 26
48% of adult social network users
3% global audience decline in 2008
FacebookFrom 250 million usersworldwide in July 2009to 300 million users inSeptember 2009 to over 400million users in February 2010
124 million users in theUnited States
TwitterFrom 7 million users in March 2009
to 20 million users in August 2009 to over 75 million users in
December 2009
27.3 million users in the United States
LinkedInFrom 13.6 million users in the
United States in August 2009 to 17.2 million users in February
2010
Taken from Quantcast (March 2010)
FlickrFrom 24.9 million users in
February 2009 to 23.2 million users in February 2010
YouTube
From 74 million users in
February 2009 to 104 million users in February
2010
Taken from Quantcast (March 2010)
Facebook Page
Facebook Page
http://www.facebook.com/VolunteerHoward
Twitter Tips from John Haydon: http://johnhaydon.com/category/twitter-tips/
Twitter Lists
Blogs
Blogs
Blogs
Blogs
Volunteer Tribute Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-QyxX3r1w&feature=channel Camp Make a Difference Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMT-6q8pXxY
YouTube
The Arc of Howard County
http://www.youtube.com/user/ArcHoward
YouTube
Flickr
Flickr
Fundraising
Fundraising
• NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network): http://www.nten.org/
• Tech Soup: http://www.techsoup.org/
• We Are Media: http://www.wearemedia.org/Tool+Box
• Social Brite: http://www.socialbrite.org/tools/
• Change.org: http://nonprofits.change.org/
Resources
Mickey GomezVolunteer Center Serving Howard County
Twitter: @volunteerhowardFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/volunteerhoward
Questions & Thank You!