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How Nonprofits Can Use Behavioral Science to Engage Supporters on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen is an independent scholar with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. While social media is now a common part of every nonprofit’s communication strategy, a common sentiment is that interacting on social media is a poor substitute to in-person interactions.

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How the World Affairs Council Broadcasts Globally with Social Media

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I reached out to Alana Post, the Online Communications Manager at The World Affairs Council of Northern California to hear how this nonprofit uses social media to reach a global audience. Additionally, I wanted her to share how they determine which social networks to use and their most successful campaigns. AP: Data is key.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

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Green for All developed a long-term program of on the ground activities to continue engaging participants -- and attract new ones. Online networks were used to help organize the national day of action but the action was not about "likes" or fans or messages. Social contacts are more ethereal, less tangible -- almost hypothetical.

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5 Ways to Use Social Media to Raise More Money at Year-end

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Year-end giving is a vital piece of the nonprofit fundraising puzzle, and the time when many organizations reap the harvest of the fundraising seeds they have sown all year long. As of June 2018, there are nearly 1 billion monthly active users of Instagram. 12% of annual donations occurs on the last three days of the year. nonprofits.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006.

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Maximizing Social Engagement for #GivingTuesday

NonProfit Hub

From hosting Facebook fundraisers to automating your efforts, here are the strategies we’ll cover: Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Focus on building one-on-one relationships, rather than simply broadcasting information. Host quick, time-bound challenges to rally supporters. Let’s dive in.

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It's a Small World After All: How to Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

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The trick is to balance working with larger networks and some of the more specific networks to create a very useful and strategic approach to community building. The Value in Smaller Networks. The point of a niche network is to be meaningfully unique and help foster a community that could benefit from an online presence.