Title
Engaging Stakeholders through Twitter: How Nonprofit Organizations are Getting More Out of 140 Characters or Less
Abstract
While it may seem difficult to communicate in a meaningful manner with 140 characters or less. Twitter users have found creative ways to get the most out of each Tweet by using different communication tools. This paper looks into how 73 nonprofit organizations use Twitter to engage stakeholders not only through their tweets, but also through other various communication methods. Specifically it looks into the organizations utilization of tweet frequency, following behavior, hyperlinks, hashtags, public messages, retweets, and multimedia files. After analyzing 4655 tweets, the study found that the nation's largest nonprofits are not using Twitter to maximize stakeholder involvement. Instead, they continue to use social media as a one-way communication channel as less than 20% of their total tweets demonstrate conversations and roughly 16% demonstrate indirect connections to specific users. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.01.005
Public Relations Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
Stakeholder engagement,Social networking,Nonprofit organizations,Twitter,Social media
Political science,Social media,Social network,Stakeholder,Advertising,Public relations,Hyperlink,Stakeholder engagement
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
2
0363-8111
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
1.25
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kristen Lovejoy1905.17
Richard Waters2191.25
Gregory D. Saxton31318.97