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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. Give them retweetable content ! into Google+.

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Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

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If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for January 2012 illuminating that Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images.

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11 Nonprofits That Excel at Social Media

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Your nonprofit can learn a lot from the 11 (mostly large) nonprofits listed below by simply following, liking, and subscribing to their e-newsletter, blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks.

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Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. Note that there is a link to the blog post in the pin and that clicking the photo. e-Newsletter.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

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Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Write content and secure photos for website pages. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your blog. 3) YouTube.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. Also, as you’ll see in Chapter 5, you will need a Google account to set up a YouTube Channel properly. Learn Basic HTML.