Nonprofits on Commercial Social Networks
Written by admin on July 8, 2010 – 9:54 am -Between February 3 and March 15, 2010 NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort Network surveyed 1,173 nonprofit professionals about their organization’s use of online social networks for the second annual Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report.
By a large margin, Facebook continues to be the most popular commercial social network with 86% (74.0% in 2009) of respondents indicating their organization has a presence there, an increase of 16% year-over-year. In tandem, the use of Twitter has increased by 38% in the last year, moving from 43.2% in 2009 to 59.7% in 2010. Usage of YouTube rose to 48.1%, up slightly from 2009 (46.5%), while LinkedIn followed at 33.1% (basically unchanged from last year). While commercial social networks continue to appeal to nonprofits overall, there is one exception. The past market leader,MySpace, dropped from 26.1% in 2009 to 14.4% (or a drop of 45% year-over-year).
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