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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. There is a need for that on Twitter, but framing your Twitter story a little more on the positive side can definitely increase your engagement.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. . What worked well (and why).

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. If you're short on time, read the abtracts and dive deeper into Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. There are 18 articles.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

It looks like it’s working. And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.”

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5 Ways Nonprofit Facebook Messenger Bots Can Deliver Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While anyone can message your nonprofit’s brand page 24/7, nonprofit staff don’t always work around the clock to respond. But what makes this bot most engaging is good storytelling shared in a conversational way, matching the pope’s tone of voice and illustrated with photos, video, and audio. Conclusion.