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! So I've asked Jason to report on the NCFR's progress on Facebook. Q: So, Jason...did Have you filled out the Social Tech Survey for associations yet? Even if you haven't taken on any social media initiatives yet, but plan to start something in the next 6 months or

they're not just MySpace, Facebook or even Twitter. The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. discovered that when it comes to dishn' with your virtual girlfriends the communities are as diverse as well .. Social networks .. A soon-to-be-talked about new venture sent me on quest to explore what was happening with women and social networks.

Writing in Engage: Hispanics , interactive marketing consultant Lee Vance provides this astonishing stat: Back in February 2008, Facebook produced a Spanish-language version (note: with help from its user community). million Facebook users in Spanish-speaking countries. In addition, the number of Spanish-preferring US users of Facebook climbed At the time, there were 2.3 Within six months that number had shot up to 9.9

Causes was without doubt a trend-setter from the outset, being one of the very first apps to be launched after the Facebook Platform toolkit was made available – enabling the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data. (Remember Despite being one of the most popular Apps on Facebook, boasting some 12m registered users, over its first 12 months it had raised just $2.5m – equating to just $126 for each organisation being fundraised for. Great news from the folks behind ‘Causes’ last week, with the announcement that they just passed the $10m point in donations since launch back in May 2007 .

You might have 59,0097 fans on Facebook (kudos!), Can You Reach Your Core Arts Patrons on Facebook? Tags: social media marketing cultural marketing nonprofit marketing social networking facebook events tools community NPtech technology blogging arts marketing online arts culture blog Once, when I was representing social media on an arts marketing panel, a fellow panelist said to me, one-on-one, something along the lines of “ okay, but how does this sell tickets ?” I guess I didn’t get that point across!

According to the report, Global Faces and Networked Places , last year, the 55-64 crowd made up nearly twice the number of people under 18 who joined facebook. Let me say that again: People aged 55-64 numbered nearly twice the under-18-year-olds who joined facebook. And the fastest growing group was aged 35-49. So, when you’re putting together your arts marketing plan, think facebook for Boomers, not for teens When I talk to people in the arts about social media, there is a common rationale for opting out: “Our patrons are over 55 – they don’t do social networking, the older ones don’t even have computers, so we’re not wasting our time on it.” Well, yes, you can waste a lot of time flailing about in the social media pool if you have no plan.

Over just a couple of conversations, mainly -- we thought about using Facebook at first, but Twitter was the logical choice because of the documentation aspect and the openness. We worried about people just using Facebook chat to have conversations the whole time, which we wouldn't be able to capture for any subsequent artistic project. How does it relate to the work that you and Seth do as artists? Twitter Island. No, it’s not a place in Second Life where everyone uses twitter. (Didn’t

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? So building up a large base of Twitter followers or Facebook fans may make your nonprofit may seem even more credible in the eyes of your local donors. While I love these tools, I was quick to express that: They don’t replace all the good fundraising practices we’ve learned over the decades. “Social”

Being an active Facebook user, on arriving home she shared the story with her online network of Friends and they started to add to it, reassuring her that she had done a good thing and that it was sure to be repaid. However her Facebook Friends, who were by now an active part of this story, proposed she donate it to a non-profit instead. Then, as is the way I’ve had a manic few weeks since mid October, mostly related to my starting-up my own Marketing and Fundraising Consultancy ( called Strategy Refresh – do take a look when you have a spare moment ) with a bit of house moving thrown-in for good measure.

A while back a reader commented on, Trouble with Facebook , mentioning that Lil Green Patch has had incredible success with this social networking site. Susan Citro from The Nature Conservancy offered to answer a few questions so that we can all have better success with our use of Facebook. The Lil Green Patch application on Facebook is one of the most popular applications and most successful Facebook fundraising campaigns. I love intelligent comments on my posts that disagree with what I have to say because it brings so much more wisdom to the table. For each