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A Short, Recent History of Nonprofit Website Design and Online Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of my favorite nonprofits to study, nonprofits would be wise to subscribe, follow, and like the World Wildlife Fund and learn from their commitment to early adoption and investing resources in building a powerful online brand. In fact, to allow for maximum content, the WWF used a tiny 8 point font in their 2008 home page design.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs a Mobile Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2009 and 2010, nonprofits were busy launching and improving their social media campaigns. There were some early adopters, but for the most part nonprofits felt overwhelmed by the prospect of launching a mobile website. In 2009 and 2010, many nonprofits rushed to launch smartphone apps.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Sadly, the vast majority of nonprofits are dreadfully behind on understanding the importance of creating mobile content and incorrectly conclude that it is expensive to launch mobile campaigns. Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. Do they have a Thank You video?

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Need a Mobile Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Folks with regular cell phones with Internet browsing wouldn’t be able to read the content of those links at all. I know you’ve heard it… 2010 is the Year of the Mobile Web. It will surely stretch into 2011 and beyond, but 2010 is definitely the year to reap the benefits of early adoption. population!).

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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Make the Most of Its LinkedIn Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As most of you probably know, LinkedIn—the networking site for professionals—expanded its scope to include company pages back in 2010. Since then, the site has slowly developed its page content, and nonprofits have caught on, using the site to promote their organizations by gaining individual followers and joining LinkedIn Groups.

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Facebook Campaigning in Romania

Amy Sample Ward

Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania. The Local Philanthropy Workshop: Facebook Campaigning in Romania. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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