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What is social media?

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What we’ll cover today

How social media can help you…

>> Collaborate>> Manage Projects>> Hire Staff>> Communicate Efficiently>> Aggregate Information

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What we’ll cover today

How social media can help you…

>> Collaborate>> Manage Projects>> Hire Staff>> Communicate Efficiently>> Aggregate Information

… to SAVE TIME and get things done.

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Share Don’t Send

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ShareSend

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Collaboration

Online tools like wikis give organizations the ability to collaborate by sharing access to documents.

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Collaboration

Is your nonprofit on wikipedia?

1) Go to wikipedia and see if a page has been created for you

2) Consider creating a page or editing the page if one already exists

Source: Nonprofit Tech 2.0, How to Update Your Nonprofit’s Wikipedia Page

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Collaboration

Create your own wiki:

A wiki is a website where userscan add, remove, and edit everypage using a web browser

Source: Wiki Definition, O’ReillyNet.com

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WikiSpaces Demonstration

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Collaboration

How nonprofits can use wikis:

>> Collaborative Document Creation

>> Knowledge Database>> Project Management >> External Communications>> and many more…

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Project Management

Cartoon by Miriam Engleberg, CompassPoint

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Project Management

Online project management tools give organizations and groups a central online repository for communicating with one another about their work.

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Project Management

Good project management tools typically include the following features:

>> Messaging>> Task Lists>> File Sharing>> Basic Wiki>> Calendar

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Project Management

Many, many tools out there to help you manage your projects:

>> Basecamp>> Google sites>> Backpack>> Huddle

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Basecamp Demonstration

Learn more about Basecamp.

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Hiring Staff

Photo by Cheryl Ross, flickr

Would you hire this guy?

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Hiring Staff

Have you considered using Linked In as a recruitment tool to fill staff positions?

LinkedIn>> bills itself as the largest professional network>> has 80 million users

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Linked In Demonstration

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Hiring Staff

Using Linked In for recruiting…

>> Your Network>> Using the Advanced Search>> Posting to Groups

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Efficient Communication

Email newsletters allow you to share what you’ve been up to on a regular basis for very little cost.

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Efficient Communication

Email Newsletter services:

>> Aweber>> Constant Contact>> Mail Chimp>> Emma

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Aggregating Information

There are more than 3.5 billion pieces of content shared each week on Facebook

Twitter averages 1.3 million tweets per hour

Wikipedia boasts over 14 million articles

10 billion videos are uploaded every month to You Tube

Source: Inside EA on Facebook

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Aggregating Information

Tools that help you store, organize and share the information you find have become critical pieces of your social media strategy.

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Aggregating Information

What is an RSS Reader?

An RSS Reader collects syndicated web content (usually from blogs) in a central location for easy viewing.

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RSS Reader Demonstration

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Aggregating Information

What is social bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online.

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Social Bookmarking Demonstration

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