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Instagram for Nonprofits — How Your Org Can Get Onboard

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You know that Facebook and Twitter are still major drivers of traffic to your website, but your love affair with Facebook is somewhat diminishing because hardly anyone even sees your posts if you haven’t boosted them (i.e. You need as strong a strategy for Instagram as you do for Facebook and Twitter. paid for your posts to be seen ).

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Curating Content: How to Leverage Stories from Your Community

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Specifically, we wanted to write a story about their experiences that would appear on our blog , share this via social media, and highlight their names, the causes they’ve worked towards, and their specific fundraising efforts. We also asked for photographs of their efforts to use in both blog posts and social media.

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Now Share This: Improving Your Event’s Social Media

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We shouldn’t see the same post each day on our Facebook timeline or Twitter feed. By replying to posts on blogs, Facebook and Twitter, followers will know you are listening and will potentially see your organization as a trusted member of their social media community. Avoid Monotony. Take note of that word “variety” used above.

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Internet Soup

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Years ago, my dear friend Jack Shepherd (not to be confused with that other guy ) came up with the idea for a clever little recurring blog series titled "Internet Soup". It's time we all start playing with tags and stop worrying about making transparent images display for 5% of users still stuck in 2001.

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A Guide for Planning Your #GivingTuesdayNow Campaign in 5 Days

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Links to your story via your website (videos, blogs, etc.). Social media #tags (Twitter, Facebook & Instagram). Allowing them to establish that sense of ownership will help you reach your goal even faster. Below are some examples of content that your supporters can easily share. Day 4: Day-of Strategy.

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Three Rules for Compelling Images

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Yesterday, the good people at Resource Media shared a report which I immediately re-posted to Facebook and Twitter. I’ve blogged about this topic before , so it is clearly something I find important. What is this secret sauce resource I speak of? Go ahead… click over and get the download started.

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$41.8 Million Raised So Far for ALS| Maybe Slactivism Isn’t Such a Bad Thing After All.

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I’ve seen a lot of articles and blog posts about the #icebucketchallenge. And if ice buckets, tagging friends on facebook, and our “look at me” culture helped bring light to fatal disease then so be it. It’s our culture; we live our lives on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for all the world to see.

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