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Social Media
The Next Greatest Generation
Specialized social media platforms are facilitating the release of the creative and compassionate energy of today’s “greatest generation”.
4 Things You Must Consider Before Building Social Video
The great part about social video marketing and trying something new is that you have the ability to test your strategies and make tweaks accordingly. Don’t be afraid to try things as long as you evaluate and analyze well!
Online Fundraising: Communicating Urgency
More and more we're relying on social media as a large part of our fundraising efforts. You want a response. You want to create urgency. Consider these key elements whenever you're designing a fundraising campaign. So it’s your job to compel a supporter to act now....
What Makes A Great Video?
What makes a great video for web or for Facebook? From the people at Buffer on Medium.com we have some hints from the marketing world. Buffer Intro Video Proof 2 So let's break it down in our language: Focus on stories, not on convincing anybody. Be...
My Images Take FOREVER to Load…
Brian Jackson on kinsta.com says, "Trust us, you don’t want Google to hate your website. Fortunately, you can reduce your image’s file sizes to help improve your website’s performance. One problem with formatting them is that modifications often reduce their quality...
Social Media Channels Are Search Engines, Too
Nowadays, people don’t just go to Google and Bing to look stuff up; they also use social media channels to find what they’re looking for. Neil Patel makes this point in his Quicksprout article on why social is the new SEO: “We need to understand that search engine...
Measure Your Media Outcomes
How to measure.... We're becoming accustomed to mounting social media campaigns for just about everything, What can media accomplish? What can it affect? Restating those questions from an evaluation perspective translates to: how can one measure the impact of media?...
Using Promoted Tweets to Connect with the World
Promoted Tweets are regular Tweets with the added bonus that they can reach more people who are interested in your mission. They should be used to place your best content in front of the audience that matters to you at the right time. If your goal is to drive a...
What About Using Facebook “Stories” for Vincentian Quotes? Vincent says…
Yeah! All over the world, Vincentian quotes on Facebook stories.... Facebook says... The feature lets people share videos and photographs in the Facebook app, which will appear on top of the News Feed. After 24 hours, the Facebook Stories also disappear. Facebook...
A Vincentian “Gutenberg” Moment
In a recent Stanford Social Innovation Review article, Marina Gorbis writes: I would argue that we are living through our own Gutenberg moment—a moment of transformation in our fundamental tools for creating, expressing, and sharing information, ideas, and knowledge....
Facebook Live: Tips
Here are some tips for Facebook Live from social media guru John Haydon: Facebook Live Tip #1: Don’t freak out Mistakes will be made. No matter how much you prepare, every now and then something goes wrong. This is especially true when trying something for the first...
