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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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WordPress 4.8: What’s New and Notable in the Latest Release

Byte Technology

First there’s the Image Widget, which allows users to add a picture to a sidebar without having to use a plugin or write custom HTML. Utilizing a drag-and-drop interface, one can now simply click on the “add image” button and up comes the media loader.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Ideally, your website and blog content display a large default image when shared on Twitter (and all social media).

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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Imagine you were in the 90’s and gave out CDs with your podcast audio episodes and then tried to figure out who actually listened to them.

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10 Best Blogging Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

NonProfit Hub

Consider incorporating interactive content into your blog, such as: Quizzes Polls Image galleries or slideshows Interactive maps Interactive videos Your nonprofit’s content management system (CMS) may offer built-in tools or add-ons that make it easier to create interactive content. Simple language free of jargon.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. One organization does this pizza!

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Six Advanced Facebook Page Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Definitely a best practice, though the Tab could be improved by adding some images and possibly a video. If your organization blogs via WordPress.org, there is a Facebook Connect Plugin for WordPress.org Blogs. Greenpeace International has also set their default Landing Tab to a customized Tab called Take Action.

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