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How to Build a Social Media Following: Top Secrets Revealed

Nonprofits Source

According to a recent Hootsuite poll, only 20% of nonprofits feel ‘extremely confident’ that they are maximizing their social media potential. Interactive content like challenges, contests, polls, and filters offers a different way for supporters to get to know your organization’s personality.

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How to Win the Game of Facebook Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

Be direct and specific, and focus on how the donor’s gift will impact a life. Host polls and contests to engage your audience. Keep your words brief and to the point. You don’t need to over-explain the project you are looking to fund. Tell the story with photos or a video.

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The 10 Necessary Steps Before Launching Your Fundraising Plan

NonProfit Hub

Get Your Own Life Under Control. If you’re an ED working 50+ hours a week and your work/life balance is a mess, getting your life back has to be priority #1. Your whole change-the-world plan is so dependent on the support of your life-partner. When your home life is a mess, no doubt your work life will suffer.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Eager to make my point, I polled my fellow Gen-Xers on which fundraising platforms have had the most disruptive impact on charitable giving since 2000. Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are hosting a contest to win $10,000K to celebrate their launch. Sixdegrees.org is running a contest with Hanes T-shirts to win $10,000K. Some say it is impossible and a poll by wikimedians here. The Second Life Community Convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago. All the candidates.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

You already know this: In the nonprofit realm, social media is life. What would you say if I told you that every moment you spend creating a social media plan now is countless hours of your life you will save later? Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. JUST for fun!

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. Data theft, cyberattacks, and government surveillance are a growing fact of digital life, and it looks like 2015 will only be more of the same. Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon.

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