Social media effectiveness for public engagement: Examples of small nonprofits

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 3107-3116

  Hou, Youyang ^a   Lampe, Cliff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonprofit organization; Organization; Social media

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMMUNITY BUILDINGS; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS; PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT; SMALL ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84951152168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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