Social Media What's Hot What's Not

Social Media – What’s Hot…What’s Not

Julia Claire Campbell Marketing, Social Media 9 Comments

I am thrilled to present this morning on the topic “Social Media: What’s Hot… And What’s Not” at The Enterprise Center at Salem State University! Please enjoy my presentation, and leave me a comment! Thanks for stopping by. If you can’t see the slideshow above, please click on this link: Social Media – What’s Hot…What’s Not – J Campbell Social Marketing from …

Nonprofit Content Creation

5 content ideas for nonprofits that think they have nothing to write/post/tweet about

Julia Claire Campbell Content Creation, Nonprofits, Social Media 5 Comments

As a marketing-savvy nonprofit professional, you know you need to create compelling content each and every day for your various online profiles – Facebook, Twitter, Google+, blog, email newsletter, etc. You don’t want to simply rehash the same information on every platform, because what fun would that be for your followers and fans? But how do you consistently find interesting …

3 simple social media tips that will make your fans and followers love you

3 simple social media tips to make your fans and followers love you

Julia Claire Campbell Content Creation, Nonprofits, Social Media 8 Comments

Does this sound like you? You dutifully post every day on two or more social media profiles for your organization. You try to follow the 80/20 rule (no more than 20% of all posts directly promoting something for your organization) but sometimes get caught up in posting boring news clippings and event listings.   You frequently post inspirational quotes, cute …

Facebook Graph Search 101 – What Is It and What Does It Mean For You?

Facebook’s Newest Announcement – What It Is and What It Means

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Social Media 2 Comments

When I was looking for a pediatric dentist, I turned to Facebook. I didn’t Google “Pediatric Dentist Beverly”. I didn’t use the business Yellow Pages (which I depressingly still get delivered to my door, in an obscene amount of plastic wrap, all of which goes directly into the recycle bin.) I turned to the network I have built on Facebook. …

7 reasons your nonprofit Facebook page has no fans

7 reasons your nonprofit Facebook page has no fans

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Nonprofits, Social Media 8 Comments

“We have a mailing list of about 2,500 people and we are well-known in the community. But no one likes our Facebook Page!”  “We do such great work! Why don’t we have more followers?”  “We’ve been on Facebook for a year but our audience has hardly grown. How can we grow our online community?” Do any of these problems sound familiar …

Giving Tuesday

Nonprofits, social media and fundraising: #GivingTuesday is a few of my favorite things

Julia Claire Campbell Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

I know you’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To most, these are revered celebrations of online consumerism and the chance to stomp on strangers for the lowest priced television. In response to this, but also as a great idea in and of itself, #GivingTuesday has been embraced by the nonprofit and philanthropic world as an alternative to the …

The fallacy of declaring your personal copyright on Facebook

The fallacy of “declaring your personal copyright” on Facebook

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Social Media 6 Comments

Have you seen this cut-and-paste status update in your News Feed today? In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above, my written consent is needed at …

Is Facebook Ruining Facebook?

Julia Claire Campbell Facebook, Social Media 2 Comments

In yesterday’s The Huffington Post, notorious Facebook criticizer Mark Cuban, Owner of the Dallas Mavericks and Chairman of HDNet, wrote a provocative post – “What I Really Think of Facebook”. In this post Cuban captured a common sentiment that is circulating the web. Facebook is ruining Facebook.   How is Facebook ruining itself? By taking itself too seriously. By over thinking it’s …

An example of using email marketing to get more Facebook Likes

An example of using email marketing to get more Facebook Likes

Julia Claire Campbell Email, Facebook, Marketing, Social Media 2 Comments

Email marketing is a necessary tool in any effective marketing toolkit. When used correctly, business and nonprofit professionals can use their email lists to grow their social media communities. Here is a good example of a simple way to do it. Crown Trophy, a small business in Peabody, Massachusetts, created a Facebook page, and wanted to let their customers know …