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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

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That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. That’s likely a result of nonprofits using Twitter much less than Facebook and Instagram.

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A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn?

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 2 admin 08.08.07

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Women for Women International

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Facebook: facebook.com/womenforwomen. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

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Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

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It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

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They move with you to The Next Big Thing i.e., from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter to Foursquare. While it is definitely true these sites could be here today, and gone tomorrow, your supporters will indeed migrate with you on to The Next Big Thing. This is when the MySpace vs. Facebook debate began to rage in the blogoshphere.

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Social Media is Going Mobile, and So Should Your Nonprofit

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There are more than 65 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices and that number grows daily. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. Many of those texts are being sent via Tweets on Twitter and Status Updates on Facebook. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.