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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other. People can text ACTION to 25383 make a $10 donation. gid=104492.

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Five Nonprofits That Have Found Their Twitter Voice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They have personality and its obvious that there is a human being behind the avatar. Pancreatic Cancer Action Network :: @ PanCAN. That said, the nonprofits below have discovered a nice balance of tweets, retweets, and mentions. They vary their content – it’s not all just about them. Tate :: @ Tate.

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Leah Jones Is Taking A 3-Day Journey To Fight Breast Cancer and Social Actions Can Help You Find Other Related Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last December, Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas.

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Twibbon: A Twitter Tool That Puts a Ribbon on Your Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. Remember the sea of green avatars last summer in support of the Iran ? What do you think?

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Almost every action that these nonprofits take online is for a good reason.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Create a page on your website with a call-to-action and a list of the benefits of becoming a matching gifts sponsor and then promote this page in email and on social media. For example, the American Cancer Society on GoFundMe Charity : 7) Sign up for Facebook & Instagram Charitable Giving Tools.

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Book Review: The Future of Nonprofits

Tech Soup

This removes the theory from the abstract and gives sample worksheets and questions to help you quickly arrive at practical solutions to help your organization futurecast, promote broader awareness, and achieve action-based results, while remembering that there is nothing wrong with celebrating the element of fun.

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