Does social media engagement translate to greater success for nonprofit organizations? Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist and craigconnects.org, recently profiled the highest grossing nonprofits and their use of social media. Newmark found that of the top 50 nonprofits, 92 percent link to at least one social media presence from their homepage (Facebook). Additionally, 90 percent link to their Twitter account, and 70 percent connect to YouTube.
Most entrepreneurs know networking is important, but they may not realize just how crucial it is to the success of their new venture.
“Recently there have been some announcements by Facebook that have impacted both the personal and brand pages of Facebook that will need to be considered by Facebook marketers.”
This article by David Berkowitz is worth studying. In it he mentions 5 changes to personal Facebook pages and 5 to “company” pages:
10 New Changes To Facebook That Will Impact Your Facebook Marketing | Business 2 Community.
I just received an email from B2C with this interesting heading. Everybody, me included, jumped on the social media bandwagon.
Are you using social media in your business? Those two little words have taken on a greater significance than ever before in recent years. How are you using social media in your small business? You know you’re doing it. There’s a Facebook page, a Twitter account and a business blog. But, wait! There’s more. See what the social media has to offer you!
In his article titled “Five tips for using Facebook for customer service“ Steve Richards (MD of social media agency Yomego and a guest blogger for Econsultancy) sum it up as follows:
“If we get bad customer service online, we vote with our feet. We stop doing business with the company in question, or take action against it. We call it out on Facebook, Twitter and (in the famous case of United Airlines) we notoriously write songs about it.”
SuperFastWebsites announces the availability of its custom WordPress website development service. Schramko’s fairly recent visit to Google Australia revealed that around 50% of businesses have yet to take advantage of the internet to gain exposure – something that should be remedied as soon as possible. He says:
WordPress Blogs Get New Comment Stats
Bloggers that operate WordPress.com blogs can now see who’s commenting the most on their blog and what posts they’re commenting on by looking at Site Stats. There’s a new comments panel that provides tabs for top commenters, most commented and a summary of comments.
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