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How to Build a Social Media Following: Top Secrets Revealed

Nonprofits Source

If someone was scrolling through their social media account and came across a post from your nonprofit, would they like, comment, or share it? According to a recent Hootsuite poll, only 20% of nonprofits feel ‘extremely confident’ that they are maximizing their social media potential. When should you post? Communicate consistency.

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How to Become an Expert in Social Media Branding

NonProfit Hub

Additionally, it’s an even bigger one right now because of how much time people are spending online while in quarantine. Social media planning is a luxury many smaller nonprofits can’t afford, so think about how much time and money you want to invest in it. Using this content type doesn’t take much of your time. Run a contest!

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How To Make Social Media Experiments Fun!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. That particular wall post had 31 comments and 15 likes, way higher than other types of posts. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Book Giveaway: Facebook Marketing for Dummies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A big time-saver, but may be boring for your audience if use Twitter a lot, or if your Twitter content is different from your FB page focus. Selective Tweets allows to you to selectively post a status update on your Facebook Page from Twitter simply by adding the hashtag “#fb”. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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Is the New Facebook “People Talking About” Metric As Meaningless as Number of Likes?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve never run an ad for more fans, or done silly contests or anything else, you know? Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Size has never mattered to us. There’s a lot of confusion.

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Five Tips to Ramp Up Your Nonprofit's Fan Pages

Care2

Take advantage of polls and contests Nonprofits typically use Facebook fan pages to post the latest news about their organization’s issues and campaigns but often forget that people online like interactives such as taking a poll or participating in contests.

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When Words Get in the Way (Like "Virtual Volunteering")

Tech Soup

This time: Yes: 58% No: 42%. The term "virtual volunteering" is a contested term. Share your favorite tools - or questions about tools - in the comments below or at the Digital Engagement branch of the TechSoup Community forum ! The results: Yes: 32% No: 68%. Is it Facebook?

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