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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Too often nonprofits follow a small number of accounts on Twitter in order to control the chaos in their “Home” feed, but that’s the purpose of lists. Like mentions and replies.

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A Social Media Strategy for Scientific Research or Policy Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What's interesting about this Twitter account is that it isn't an automatic feed that streams links to their own reports. They are using Twitter and a Facebook Fan Page to grow an audience interested in carefully vetted research. Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 . They rely only on credible sources.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. The Best Free Sources of Social Media Audience Research. This analysis took all of five minutes. BackType: Another Listening Tool.

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Attend the Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp (at a Discount!)

NTEN

revealed that while overall fundraising was down 2% in 2008, online fundraising. month of December accounted for 21% of the transaction volume in 2008 -- but. Target the right audience and build your email list. will feed you. article published in our September newsletter , Blackbaud's Steve MacLaughlin.

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum 2.0

The main audiences for memberships are value members, who think of it as a good deal, lifelong learners, who want to come to as many programs and exhibits as possible, and donors, who support the museum. 1stfans is an attempt to change that by providing specific benefits targeted to those audiences' needs. Who are the 1stfans?

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. In defining your target audience, too, keep the intended outcome in mind: Which people are actually in a position to act on your information? both electronic and print.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. Should they spend a bit of time tying their RSS feed (if they have one) to a twitter account?

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