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The Most Common (Yet Completely Obvious) Mistake Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Yet everyday on Twitter and (especially) Facebook nonprofits are sending out hundreds of thousands of Tweets and Status Updates with completely wrecked avatars. I could understand making this mistake a year or two ago when everyone was still experimenting, but at this point its clear that social media is not a fad.

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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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Five Things Your Nonprofit Needs To Know About YouTube’s Cosmic Panda

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On July 7 YouTube announced the launch of their new YouTube Channel design experiment cleverly named Cosmic Panda. Beyond accruing a lot friends to distribute your avatar throughout the YouTube community, it’s was never clear what the benefits of having friends were. 4) Bulletins now allow hyperlinks!

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

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Experiment with social media dashboards. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Experiment with HootSuite (or TweetDeck). Experiment with Twitter social good apps and portals. Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Set up Flickr Profile. Experiment with LinkedIn Answers.

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

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All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. 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. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

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There’s a powerful synergy that begins to occur when your nonprofit has a presence on multiple on social networks and unfortunately most nonprofits never get to experience it due to capacity issues. A good social media manager has experience with online communications and fundraising. You need a good avatar.