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HOW TO: Custom Design Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Timeline

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Next, hover over your nonprofit’s avatar and upload a profile picture. As I have said many, many times your avatar a.k.a. Building a powerful visual brand of your nonprofit’s avatar is crucial on all social networking sites and a cropped, messy logo a.k.a. stories to the news feed.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images. Absolutely not! Craziness!

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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For example, the Latin America Work Group’s website is www.lawg.org , but when the organization was setting up its profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, “lawg” was not available on all three sites. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. Learn Basic HTML.

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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. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. In addition to the list of global top sites, you can also view top sites by country.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Pinterest

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When Mashable first started buzzing about Pinterest in December 2011, I took a quick look at the site and thought to myself, “Shopping, crafters, and foodies. not another site I need to pay attention to.” Not relevant to the vast majority of nonprofits and (whew!)

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

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.” It’s worth noting that beginning July 31 Google made it mandatory that all Google Profiles be public which means that your first name, last name, and profile picture will be visible when you participate in public Google Products such as Google Places, Maps, Images, Sites, etc.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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