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#FollowFriday, #FanFriday and #FriendFriday Explained

Published August 14, 2009 @ 08:42AM PT

#FollowFriday, #FanFriday and #FriendFriday are hashtags. #FollowFriday has long been used by the Twitter community to suggest Twitter profiles to one another that are worthy of being followed.

Yesterday, as I was browsing through Tweets by nonprofits, I saw so many "Check us out on Facebook!" and "Become a friend on MySpace!" Tweets that I thought the law of diminishing returns must be kicking in by now. So, today I started experimenting with two new Twitter hashtags:

#FanFriday: A simple way to ask followers to fan a nonprofit on Facebook. Example Tweet:

#FanFriday Please help Gorilla Doctors achieve 100 fans on Facebook! http://bit.ly/fYP8H

#FriendFriday: A hashtag used to ask followers to friend a nonprofit on MySpace, YouTube, FriendFeed, etc. Example Tweet:

#FriendFriday Please help the Wild Dolphin Foundation achieve 46,000 friends on MySpace! http://bit.ly/42YdEm

These hashtags can also be used on Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Change.org, etc. For example, on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page and my personal profile, I just posted this Status Update:

#FanFriday Please help Gorilla Doctors reach 100 fans! A great organization that provides medical care to the world's remaining 740 mountain gorillas: http://bit.ly/fYP8H

Some hashtags take off, most don't. We'll see.

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Those two ideas are great Heather! We'll definitely try to make use of them and spread them!

Posted by Solar Electric Light Fund on 08/14/2009 @ 10:03AM PT
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Where's your reader selections so your readers can subscribe to your RSS feeds? Is it here and I'm just missing it? It's very important if you want others to follow your blog. I use a google reader! I also have another reader that I can put your URL in, so I am fortunate, but many others don't, so unless they know to bookmark your blog, and come back daily, they are not going to be able to easily follow this blog (unless they remember your URL and remember to come back to it daily, or drag the blog page into the toolbar and remember to come back to the blog daily. But some people who are not technologically savvy won't even know how to do this, won't think of it, or will forget to do it daily. Just making a suggestion that you get an RSS feed reader subscription that lists all the readers, or at least google and bloglines. I'm also suggesting you get something that allows your reader to subscribe by email. I imagine you do this through feedburner. hope this helps some!

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Posted by krissy knox on 08/17/2009 @ 10:20AM PT
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Heather is the Nonprofit Community Manager for Change.org. She also created and maintains the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace, Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page, Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel, and the Nonprofit Organizations Twitter profile. Fueled by a strong passion for the Internet, Heather spends her days helping nonprofit organizations utilize the Internet as a tool for social change.