Since meeting Jason, we've stayed in touch through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Imagine my excitement when he sent out a twitter message about creating a Facebook communications plan. Not only is NCFR using Facebook, they are committed enough to create a whole communications plan around it! The carrot? My dream apps?

Three of the most common SM tools that I will focus on here are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In this post, I’ll talk about Facebook and Twitter. So, let’s start with Facebook. Facebook is a free-access social networking application used by over 200 million users globally. That’s it. 23 users.

In Part I of this two-part post on social media (SM), I briefly covered the key features of Facebook and Twitter, and I gave some examples of their uses. Now I’ll move on to LinkedIn, the third and final SM tool I’ll review here. LinkedIn is a free, business-oriented professional networking site. So now what? leads?

I just completed a survey on Social Media Marketing ( Facebook , MySpace , Blogging, etc) of 150 of the nation’s nonprofits that fall into what I call “Main Street Nonprofits.” By this I mean local, community-based nonprofits serving a local community – rather than the big national nonprofits. on the list. link].

My big three channels are now Twitter , LinkedIn and my Blog. Google Android for one), that’s not the point, the tools will change, however the concept of community-powered niche applications is here to stay. Why did I do it, and more importantly why should you care? The first reason is simple. How is that possible you may ask?

This past week, I’ve been privileged to be on a couple panels introducing nonprofit organizations to social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Linked in. How will they help me serve the people in my community? But often, people that move away, hold their old community near to their heart. I’m at: [link]. link].

Traveling down to Norfolk, VA today to deliver tomorrow’s all-day boot camp on social media for nonprofits, hosted by the Academy for Nonprofit Excellence at Tidewater Community College. Several are taking the first step social-media wise (most with Facebook ) as an experiment – exactly the right approach.

Newer ways of communicating such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and blogs are almost as easy and accessible to small nonprofit organizations as they are to the giants. Here's the problem: Sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and others represent vast communities where people can communicate with each other. Web 2.0.

This past week, I’ve been privileged to be on a couple panels introducing nonprofit organizations to social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Linked in. How will they help me serve the people in my community? But often, people that move away, hold their old community near to their heart. I’m at: [link]. link].

Whether your nonprofit is on facebook, twitter, or myspace, you may be asking yourself, How can I get more facebook group members? How can I, in short, mobilize the community around my cause? Now do a search for your cause on facebook. Do the same for Facebook and Twitter. Share this on Facebook. Right now.