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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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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: First in 2010!

NTEN

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008. Tags: community buzz nten member. Members are in bold.

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Highlights from the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study

Care2

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. Open rates can be an unreliable metric due to spam filters, preview panes, image blocking which have little to do with whether someone is actually opening (or reading) an email.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - His main point is that Twitter is not an advertising tool or spam tool.

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Living Between the Tides

NetWits

The direct mail world was broken the instant the first email was sent, but 80% of all email sent is spam. And the 2008 U.S. Tags: Social Networking fundraising trends. The newspaper classified ads were broken forever by the Internet, thanks to a one-two punch from the likes of Monster and Craigslist. Kiva breaks it.

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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. Tags: socialmedia. 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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Day 1: Connecting Up Conference: Brisbane, Australia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. We moderate comments because of spam and word press has a good tool for spam, but you need to moderate.