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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners.

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Twibbon: A Twitter Tool That Puts a Ribbon on Your Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He is using a tool called " Twibbon " that makes it easy for people to change their avatar to incorporate a visual for a particular cause. Two years later, changing your Twitter icon in support of a cause (even though some call this " slacktivism "), is a techniques being used. Tags: twitter. What do you think?

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I invited her to share her thoughts about cause fatigue and scaling as she launches the Twestival Local. Cause fatigue is something I think about daily; particularly going into our second Twestival this September. For me, Twestival is more than just about events in cities raising money for a cause.

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Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and MySpace Accounts

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There are lots of friendly activists and comment fairies on MySpace that do care very much about social causes and nonprofits. They want a human behind the avatar. Tags: MySpace Twitter Uncategorized. I am definitely not a fan of automation on social networks. People don’t want to follow “bots&#.

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10 Popular #Hashtags for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit : Occasionally, you can replace the word “nonprofit&# with “#nonprofit&# in a Tweet, or tag it on to the end of Tweet that mentions a nonprofit or nonprofit trend. fundraising : This hashtag is best used when tagged on to a Tweet that discusses fundraising trends. Tags: Twitter. That said: 1.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Change.org and Care2 specialize in social networking focused on causes and online petitions. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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New on SSIR: Organizations and Individuals Fundraising in Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Online : that is already happening with people who use applications like Causes in facebook, which encourages users to fundraise each year on their birthday via their Birthday Cause tool (individuals select an organization, ask their facebook friends to give donations instead of presents, and the funds get distributed to the organization).