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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. It’s a community that takes a while to understand and adapt to. 10) Explore Twitter Spaces, Newsletters, and Communities. Twitter Communities. Like mentions and replies. Twitter Spaces.

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Three Things That Happen When Facebook Pages Reach 10,000 Fans

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. Social networking communities are migrant communities, but that’s another blog post. and in the News Feed of your Fans.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

Cloud 4 Good

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Founder Adam Braun started the organization with a dream of creating educational infrastructure in the communities that need it most and a deposit of just $25.

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CROS Ministries Grows Individual Gifts by over 533%

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Their programs include six community food pantries, one mobile pop-up pantry distributing food in six different locations, a program called Gleaning that partners with local farmers to recover food that would otherwise go to waste, a hot meal program, and a summer camp program. Hunger Action Month.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” This isn’t the first time the nonprofit community has been screwed by using free tools own by corporations. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" November 20, 2008 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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