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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. Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action.

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What Are Your 2008 Activist Resolutions?

Have Fun - Do Good

"[S]top thinking about how crazy the times are, and start thinking about what the crazy times demand."-- Seth Godin A couple weeks ago blogger Latoya Peterson posted her 2008 Activist Resolutions on Racialicious. Last year I interviewed 12 people for the Big Vision Podcast and 4 of them were people of color.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. My intent was to inventory every interesting action I came across to make it easier for people to engage in the causes they cared about. The Social Actions project began in 2006.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look. What do you think?

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010. We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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SaaS vs. Open Source

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 SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. SaaS is not, by definition either proprietary or open source.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy.

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