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Spring cleaning: How to do a social media audit

Candid

These include: Profile picture: This is likely your organization’s logo. Banner picture: This is the large image that accompanies your logo. Or discovered that your Instagram account’s email was set to the staff member who set it up in 2010 but hasn’t worked with you since 2012?

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5 Ways to Use Your Smartphone for Social Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a nonprofit, there are certain ways you can encourage your donors to use their phones for good. According to The Guardian , people are spending an average of three hours and 15 minutes on their phone per day. Registering for a charity walk, bike, or run just takes a few minutes and participants can do it right from their phones.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. This past Sunday was October 10th, 2010 – also know as 101010, the Global Work Day for climate action supported by 350.org Part of working in the social impact space means thinking about the big picture, the long-term goals, and the multi-year strategy.

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Three iPhone Apps that Every Nonprofit Needs to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The use of iPhone Apps that benefit the nonprofit sector is going to explode in 2010. Hundreds of iPhone Apps created by nonprofits and nonprofit service providers are quietly preparing for an early 2010 launch. CauseWorld empower users earn “karma points” when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone.

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

I can stare a picture of beautiful yarn the way a foodie would study a picture in Gourmet Magazine. Communicating entirely through email and sending him pictures taken on my phone, I completed the sweater pieces, taking notes on stitch counts and making changes as we went along based on Mathew’s feedback.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The purpose of the tool was to empower Kenyans to document and report on incidents in real-time, giving the media, governments, and relief organizations a true picture of what was happening on the ground. In less than an hour after the 2011 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the Ushahidi platform was used to spotlight areas of refuge.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily. Connecting and communicating online is different than over the phone or face-to-face; being able to effectively connect and communicate to constituents from all walks of life from all corners of the world is important.

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