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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There are rage tweeters and arrogant trolls that occasionally trend to the top. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. So, be sure to regularly retweet partners, chapters, staff, activists, donors, and sponsors. Positive news about your mission and programs.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. Whether you’ve been using social media for years, months, or days or you have yet to get started, the information and strategies in this chapter can save you a lot of time and frustration.

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Is Twitter for Old Folks? And other gems from TWTRCON

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites] [link] #twtrcon @ davemcclure yo @ hootsuite not really that cool to be incentivizing followers to spam the #twtrcon hash tag with product spam. twtrcon @ hootsuite HootSuite 2.0:

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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They host Web Analytics Wednesdays around the world and you can hear the definition described by their chapter in Brussels). Act 2: Selecting An Analytics Tool There are a number of web analytics software tools available ranging from simple web counters, web hosting stat tools and more powerful (and expensive) software packages.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. A collection of economic and media trends and stats. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

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And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. I think it’s in February every year, called the Nonprofit Trends Report. And the chapter in my book about teams we actually adapted into a free ebook.

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