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Eight Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make When They First Join Twitter

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@NonprofitOrgs only follows nonprofit organizations, nonprofit staff, nonprofit service providers, and activists on Twitter. Many of these folks are new to Twitter and thus I get to see the Twitter debut of many nonprofits and there are eight very common mistakes that newbies make that unknowingly diminish their Twitter ROI from day one.

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Five Nonprofits That Have Found Their Twitter Voice

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Finding your Twitter voice is an accomplishment only earned through a process of trial and error and conscious experimentation. Even the best social media managers often go through an initial period of puzzlement and frustration as they try to figure out how Twitter works and what to tweet. MobileActive.org :: @ MobileActive.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

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In this early stage, the metaverse is being envisioned and portrayed as an online reality that we humans enter and experience as avatars through a VR headset, similar to the Oasis experience in the movie Ready Player One. Google is rumored to be working on new glasses and Apple apparently has a new mixed reality headset in the works.

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

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An online database of Twitter Apps called oneforty currently lists almost 2,900 third-party Twitter Apps. While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. The ten Twitter Apps listed below are 10 of my 25 favorites: 1. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. For example: 1.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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Unless you study Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. on a regular basis you may not realize that the best practices that worked six months ago have evolved and some simply don’t work anymore at all. 1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter.

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Six Simple Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Exposure on Social Media

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It’s grunt work which many nonprofit’s do not have the time for or the endurance to maintain, but every time your nonprofit does one of the six actions listed below, your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on the Social Web – and as a result more fans and followers. 3) Favorite and list others on Twitter.