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Sharing links via social media:2011 statistics

“AddThis” is one of the main social media sharing sites. Just like “ShareThis“, which I covered before on this blog, they provide browser plugins and social bookmarking icons for 11 million websites. In short, they facilitate ways to “pass on” links via different (social) media.

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Evidence of the social media revolution

In case you still needed convincing social media is not a trend, but a revolution: There are over 200,000,000 blogs in the world and 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily. It took Radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. TV did better: 13 years, the Internet 4 Years and iPod 3 Years. Facebook on [...]

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Analyzing 200 nonprofit blogs

I took advantage of the long weekend here in Rome to do a major redesign of the back end engines in my network of blogs and social media tools. Over the past two years, I have collected over 300 sites which cover aid and humanitarian issues, development and philanthropy, advocacy and “social media for a [...]

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The Twitter demographic statistics

When Sysomos, a social media research company, analyzed information about 11.5 million Twitters accounts, the results could not be but amazing and relevant: Twitter only picked up in the last six months: 72.5% of all users joining during the first five months of 2009. Most Twitter users seem to be either just ‘listening’ or are [...]

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Top social media sites

TechCrunch posted an excellent overview of the top social media sites based on monthly visitors.

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Does your organisation have a blog?

We ran a quick poll using Twtpoll with the question “Does your non-profit organisation have a blog?”. 20% answered their organisation did not have a blog. About half of the respondents indicated their organisation had one or more blogs, which were not officially endorsed. Only about 30% answered their organisation did have one or more [...]

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