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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. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement.

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Free and open source tool #5: WordPress

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 Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. WordPress is expandable with tons of plugins. Installation of WordPress is scarily easy.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Google Earth API (plugin). Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email “from&#. subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? design: is it clean?

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Things to consider and target include: sender line: who is your email "from" subject line: what are you saying before the email is even opened? does it rely on graphics/images? All rights reserved.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). In early 2008 it was slightly lower for several reasons. In June 2008, it has more than doubled. I did not include spam comments or my own). What does that mean? I just sampled one month.