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How Nonprofits Can Use Instagram for Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Start With the Right Profile Type. Instagram offers two account types — business and personal profiles. When creating an account for your nonprofit, you should choose a business profile over a personal one. Selecting a business profile will allow you to add “Nonprofit” to your bio.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, all nonprofit staff can start experimenting and familiarizing themselves with Google+ before the brand pages, also known as Google+ Business Profiles , are launched later this month. A Google Account is different from a Google Profile. Create a Google Profile. Set up your Google Profile.

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15 Lessons Learned from Donating Online to 32 Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A giving portfolio app is definitely an app whose time has come and interestingly enough while writing this post, a new app called Givolio appeared in my Twitter feed that plans to launch this fall. Yes, I could have used an online giving portal, but like most people, my smartphone is becoming central to my personal economics.

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Should Your Nonprofit Be Active on the New Myspace?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If in the future Myspace allowed old profiles to be converted into the new with friends in tact, I’d jump in. For them, it’s worth experimenting with. For most others, I think a better time investment would be Google+, Pinterest and Instagram. But until then, my time is already spread too thin.

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6 Types of Nonprofit Video Messages

Greater Giving

They educate and entertain viewers quickly, feeding information to them in a comfortable, effective way. This style of short video can be incredibly effective for sharing important stories about the completion of projects, achievements, and profiles of people without adding an emotionally charged element to the message. Impact Videos.

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. It’s worth noting that all three still regularly login to their profiles MySpace. The SEIU is the best profile I have found, but clearly they need some inspiration.

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