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How to Follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Resources for Nonprofit Design

Media Cause

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are what everyone must follow to make the web a more inclusive experience. The WCAG “define how to make Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, ranging from visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological.” . Contrast Checker.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content curation – the process of finding, organizing, and sharing topical, relevant content for your audience that supports your nonprofit’s engagement or campaign goals (or your professional learning) begins with “ Spotting the Awesome.” ” UpWell Content Curation Guidelines - The Mobilisation Lab.

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The Unanticipated Benefit of Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to write a feature article in the recent issue of the NTEN journal called “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Reducing Information Overload.” And, of course, I’ll also cover the tools. His deep knowledge of the practices and the tools is impressive.

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8 Random But Useful Social Media Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In addition to the time required to create content for social media and manage social networks, new media managers need at least two hours weekly to research social media trends and best practices. The optimal aspect ratio for Twitter photos is 2:1. For example, 1024 x 512 pixels. Nonprofits can create LinkedIn Showcase Pages.

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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last month, I had the pleasure of doing a session on Content Curation called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from the Best Content Curator on the Planet: Robin Good? I spent some time going through the tools on Robin’s list to find the ones that were easy to use and gave me good stuff quickly. Which ones?

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter. If your nonprofit’s objective is to gain a lot of followers on Twitter, then you should follow on a 1:1 ratio. There are so many benefits to following on a 1:1 ratio, and sadly less than 1 percent of nonprofits on Twitter do. Posting only (boring) marketing content.

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Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits: 6 Key Strategies

Nonprofits Source

Using a powerful website builder is necessary for optimizing your website as a fundraising tool. Pay attention to SEO Search engine optimization (SEO) is changing your website’s content to align with Google’s search algorithm so your website appears higher on the search engine results page (SERP) for certain keywords.

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