In early June, members of our team attended Sree's Social Media Weekend, a conference hosted by Sree Sreenivasan, former Chief Digital Officer of Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the City of New York.
Following are three takeaways on how to improve your social media channels:
Follow the three ABCs of social media: Always Be Charging (your smartphone); Always Be Collecting (pictures, with said phone); and AlwaysBe Connecting (especially when you don't have an immediate need from our network). A handy sheet with this, and other tips is available thanks to Sree
here.
We know eye-catching micro-videos and images will boost your social media engagement, but the sheer number of apps available to create this content is overwhelming. Jeremy Caplan (
@Jeremycaplan), Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center Entrepreneurial Journalism at CUNY, showcased his
favorite tools, which can be found
here.
(Trust us, you'll want to click that!)
With 8,000 tweets sent per second, it can be hard to cut through the noise to showcase your nonprofit. Twitter Chats provide a unique avenue to do just that. Neil Parek (@neilparekh)
For even more helpful info, find Sree on social media (Twitter: @sree,
Instagram:
@sreenet,
Facebook/sreenet) or look up
#sreetips.
Our Jeff Simmons Joins WBAI 99.5 FM as a Co-Host of City Watch
This month, our Executive Vice President Jeff Simmons joined WBAI 99.5 FM's City Watch radio show as co-host. Tune in at 10:00 a.m. Saturdays as the show features news important to New Yorkers, including interviews with City leaders, nonprofits, cultural institutions and much more.
Pictured above are co-hosts Michael Phone, Jeff Simmons, Joel Berg, and Edwina Frances Martin. You can listen to the first two shows where Jeff hosted
here and
here.
Our Clients Are In The News!
Our nonprofits have been busy! Check out examples of recent press stories we've placed. To see more that we have worked recently, visit us on Facebook:
facebook.com/NonProfitTalk