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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Twitter Newsletters. Like mentions and replies.

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Facebook Radically Changed the News Feed – Here’s What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Connection Cafe

In a Facebook post dated January 11th, Mark Zuckerberg shared a completely new direction for the News Feed to make sure the “time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent.”. So his new goal for the News Feed is to create more meaningful conversations between “friends, family and groups”. How will the News Feed rank public content?

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How Nonprofits Can Effectively Promote their Online Shop on Instagram and Facebook

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Even Giving Tuesday, a day dedicated to supporting causes we love, can be a challenge for small and local groups who are outsized by national and global causes. It’s important to get creative, plan ahead and start your marketing early for big spending and giving days like these.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

People follow nonprofits on Twitter to learn about your cause or because they care about the work you do. Let them be activists for your organization and your cause. If your nonprofit is always in the “Home” view, odds are you’re cluttering the feed and annoying your followers. Give them retweetable content !

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Nonprofit Email Communication Truth: Quantity Is As Important As Quality

Bloomerang

Provided the point of the email is not endless solicitation, but rather to: Show gratitude Offer something useful Report on impact they made possible It makes people feel good when their affiliation with your cause and community, their personal values, and their sense of identity as a helpful human being are reinforced. Need proof?

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Engage Donors and Raise More Money with Four Easy Actions

Greater Giving

Nonprofits are struggling to connect donors with the cause—but these four donor engagement best practices can open up new communication channels. While 72% of nonprofits used personal phone calls, 69% said they relied on email newsletters to get the word out. Donors are inundated with email, and their social media feeds are packed.

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Nonprofit Email Communication Truth: Quantity Is As Important As Quality

Bloomerang

Provided the point of the email is not endless solicitation, but rather to: Show gratitude Offer something useful Report on impact they made possible It makes people feel good when their affiliation with your cause and community, their personal values, and their sense of identity as a helpful human being are reinforced. Need proof?

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