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10 Signs Your NGO Excels at Social Media

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Social media changes so frequently that unless your NGO has a full-time social media manager who has the time to consistently research and adopt emerging trends, odds are your NGO is using social media in ways that are no longer effective. Small NGOs should blog or publish news stories at least twice monthly.

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11 Nonprofits Utilizing the New Twitter Profile Design

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The vast majority of nonprofits have yet to utilize the new Twitter profile design that was launched on September 18. The good news is that upgrading to the new design is extremely easy – it can be done in just a few clicks by following these four simple steps. 11 Excellent Examples of Nonprofit Avatars.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. Diversify your news sources. The best social media managers have a voracious appetite for news and current affairs. Since I have returned from Asia I have cut my consumption of broadcast news by 95%.

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10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

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An algorithm is necessary to weed out boring content from the Facebook News Feed, but 1%? Your nonprofit has a visually compelling avatar that is used consistently on all social networks. This is Social Media 101, but a best practice still not widely adopted by most small nonprofits.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Based in the U.K., Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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