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10 Simple Nonprofit Twitter Tips

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Upload an avatar, and fill out a short blurb about your nonprofit in the bio. Twitter’s most recent update now allows thumbnails of images to appear in feeds. Use advanced search. This is a powerful tool for when you’re searching for people to follow in specific geographic locations or relationships to your account.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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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. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. into Google+.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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To begin, and this is important, your nonprofit should conduct a search on LinkedIn to see if a page already exists for your organization. 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.

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Use a Horizontal Avatar. LinkedIn Groups are the only community discussed in this book that uses a rectangular avatar instead of a square one. If you name your group after your nonprofit, then your horizontal logo is fine for your LinkedIn group’s avatar. It needs to be a strong avatar that makes a solid first impression.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Add Google’s +1 button to your desktop and mobile websites and blog.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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HOW TO: Launch an iPhone App for Your Nonprofit for $25 a Month

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As an iPhone user, I personally would love to download the Apps of my favorite nonprofits and have their avatars displayed on my iPhone. A quick search of the term “nonprofit&# in the iTunes App store returns less than 50 Apps, and most of those are miscategorized Apps. so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads.

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