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The Complete Guide to Facebook Ads for Nonprofits

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Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds. Use ads to promote major fundraising campaigns, events, or cause awareness days. Are you just trying to raise awareness for your cause?

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit assists the poor, share a story of someone who finally secured employment or got a raise and can now feed their family and buy their kids new shoes for the school year. Other ways that social media has negatively affected the nonprofit sector that we need to be aware of and deal with? Indeed, I struggle with it often.

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How do you keep up?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Like Holly wrote, blogs and RSS readers (I use Google Reader) are immensely helpful, and I’m trying to get into the habit of going through all of my tech blog feeds on a daily basis. I’m starting to make a concerted effort to keep up, though. 3 Erin McMahon 08.08.08 at 9:36 pm Great question. Hmm, I feel a blog post coming on.

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Social Media and Privacy: Best Practices for Managing Your Personal and Professional Identities

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In August of 2009, the following exchange occurred between an employee known only as "Lindsay" and her boss, "Brian": [Lindsay]. Be aware that participating in quizzes will reveal information about you to others. Twitter and WordPress Feeds. Know the Risks. "OMG [oh my God] I HATE MY JOB!!"

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Interview: John Brennan of OpenAction

Amy Sample Ward

In June 2009, John decided to sell nearly everything he owned and set out for New York City (via San Diego). I remember leaving for Vegas and making a promise to Joe that I would submit a mashup to the 2009 Change the Web Challenge. That’s a funny story actually, but I suppose many entrepreneurs have similar stories.

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A Social Media Strategy for Scientific Research or Policy Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June. What's interesting about this Twitter account is that it isn't an automatic feed that streams links to their own reports. Source: Compete Media Trends for 2008 .

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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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