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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. America didn’t seem like such a mess in the foreign media. By early December I was anxious, angry, and hopeless. Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Let's take a look at the brief history of fundraising on Twitter and lessons learned. As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good? Over at the NTEN blog, you can read reflections from nonprofits that are participating in America's Giving Challenge. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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