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JULY 19, 2013

The government uses social media tools like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to connect with people and communicate official information, so it’s important to know if a social media account is really managed by the federal government. This tool lets you verify if a social media account is managed by the U.S.

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APRIL 11, 2014

Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO : You’ve got social media covered. But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites. Please—you were an early adopter. And Twitter? You could do 140 characters or less in your sleep.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Wish You Could Change the Name of Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page? Blog :: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits : There’s a sixth upgrade I want to add to the recent blog post Five Recent Upgrades That Nonprofits Need to Know About – you can now request to change the name of your nonprofit’s Facebook Page by visiting:

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APRIL 3, 2013

The Permanent Disruption of Social Media | Stanford Social Innovation Review : Spending an entire workday on Facebook isn’t part of a typical nonprofit employee’s job description. But for one day last fall, all of the people who work at For Love of Children (FLOC) spent all of their time on Facebook.

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APRIL 19, 2012

Demystifying social media - McKinsey Quarterly - Marketing & Sales - Digital Marketing : Executives certainly know what social media is. After all, if Facebook users constituted a country, it would be the world’s third largest, behind China and India.

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

The Salvation Army of Austin Advertising and Social Media Guidelines  The Salvation Army of Austin :The Salvation Army will support your third-party fundraising effort by enabling you to link your social media campaign to specified web page(s), our Facebook fundraiser page and retweeting your Twitter campaign.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

7 Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Social Media Burnout in 2014 : 2013 was undoubtedly the year of social media. Facebook signed its 1 billionth user, over 400 million tweets are being sent per day on Twitter, LinkedIn boasts over 1.5

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MARCH 12, 2014

The Scoop on Facebook Paper for Nonprofits : There seems to be a new social media tool or channel every week. But when Facebook comes out with a new app, you should probably pay attention to it. Facebook Paper, released in February for the iPhone, is a whole new way to browse the social media network.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social Media Gets Word Out, Rumors Still Fly | The NonProfit Times : When Hurricane Katrina hot New Orleans and ravaged the Gulf Coast in 2005, Twitter was still a few months from being born and Facebook was still a crawling infant. There were smartphones but they too were not yet real mobile devices.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

UNICEF says Facebook ''likes'' won''t save children''s lives | The Verge : UNICEF has launched a bold advertising campaign that takes direct aim at perhaps the most ubiquitous form of online activism — the Facebook "like."

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

More small businesses dedicating time to social media - latimes.com : It started with an injured rescue dog, $125 in cash and an old silk screen machine. To raise awareness for their endeavor, the 25-year-old brothers — they're triplets — turned to Facebook.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

6 direct marketing methods to gain social media influencers : Page 1 of 2 : Target Marketing : 'm a big fan of social media. I jumped on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, etc., but it didn't occur to me until recently that social media could help direct marketers by leveraging influencers.

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MARCH 21, 2013

How To Rock Social Media In Just 30 Minutes A Day [INFOGRAPHIC] - AllTwitter : Enter Pardot, and their slick infographic below, which provides a workable guide as to how you can rock Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and Google in just 30 minutes each day.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

Social Media Crisis Communications for Bloggers | FeedBlitz - Email Marketing and RSS : t happened. And so is your Facebook Page. Someone took offense to something on your blog. A thought wasn’t as well developed as you imagined. Or you wrote something you wish you hadn’t. Comments section is filled with vile.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Facebook Turns 12 Today, And Here's How It's Celebrating | Fast Company | Business + Innovation : "t’s a bit crazy when you think about it, but Facebook is 12 years old today. On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched his fledgling social media site at Harvard. And the rest, as they say, is history. via Blog this'

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AUGUST 10, 2010

SOCIAL MEDIA MANIA - Association Bisnow - Washington: "t seems not so long ago that we were all minimizing Facebook and Twitter on our desktops every time the boss walked by. Now, many are expected to be logged in from 9-to-5 (and beyond).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Facebook | Beth Kanter: Win A HP Computer and Printer: What's Your Theory of Change for Social Media Use?: "HP HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of 'embedded giving.'

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MARCH 25, 2015

Your College May Be Banking on Your Facebook Likes - NYTimes.com : "I ended up going to Facebook and LinkedIn, places where I knew my classmates really were,” Mr. Grinna said. EverTrue, which he founded in 2010, enables educational institutions to parse the social media activities of their graduates.

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MAY 9, 2016

Facebook, Twitter play different roles in connecting mobile readers to news | Pew Research Center : "Facebook sends by far the most mobile readers to news sites of any social media site, while Twitter mobile users spend more engaged time with news content, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of audience behavior metrics from 30 news sites. (..)

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MARCH 7, 2013

Toyota NZ launches Facebook charity giveaway | Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine : 5 charities around New Zealand will receive a free Toyota Corolla at the conclusion of the Japanese car company’s clever social media campaign. The campaign, called 25 Ways to Say Thanks (www.25waystosaythanks.co.nz),

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Improved customer engagement via social media a key goal for marketers | TMA Resources : Organizations of all kinds – private and public, corporate and nonprofit – are increasingly striving to utilize social media.

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MAY 29, 2013

5 Ways to Supercharge Your Nonprofit''s Facebook Page :everyone says Facebook can grow your audience. After all, it''s one of the most used and most powerful social media tools on the planet. You started a Facebook Page for your nonprofit. You have a few likes. You''ve posted some updates.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

Facebook's resistance to RNIB's advert poses questions for charity campaigns | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian : "he news that Facebook had banned the Royal National Institute of Blind People’s (RNIB) latest campaign advert about sight loss raises questions about the future of charity adverts on the social media platform.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

Facebook Reverses Ban on Sight-Loss Charity's Video Ad - The Chronicle of Philanthropy : "After barring a Royal National Institute of Blind People advertisement that asks viewers to consider how they would feel if they were losing their sight, Facebook did an about-face Wednesday and cleared the clip, The Guardian reports.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - : As nonprofit senior leadership starts taking social media more seriously to engage supporters, they are also starting to ponder their own organization’s influence. DIY NotKlout! Fair enough.

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APRIL 28, 2011

CharityVillage Research: Five Things to Do Before You "Do Social Media" : "Like many charities and nonprofit organizations, you've probably put 'Do something with social media!' Most nonprofits are already maintaining a presence on one to three popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tech Council launches first social media fundraiser • Business (www.HometownAnnapolis.com - The Capital): "When helping out the homeless, few people put computers and LCD monitors on their list of donations.

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MARCH 10, 2011

NPR Scandal Explodes Plans for New Social Media Campaign | Fast Company: "Before the manufactured scandal, Fast Company had learned that NPR was about to ramp up a sophisticated social media strategy to rally their politically-savvy audience, including efforts at many of its nearly 800 local affiliates, roughly three months after it soft launched its (..)

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JUNE 7, 2013

Waters True Value donates $4,000 with the help of social media - News - Dodge City Daily Globe - Dodge City, KS : Waters True Value utilized Facebook to bring awareness about relief efforts to the community.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

First Independent aids charity via social media | The Columbian: "The bank’s “Ready to Give” program aims to raise money for five Clark County charities each year by tapping its customers’ Twitter and Facebook networks, in addition to using traditional print and online advertising, said Stacey Graham, chief strategy officer at First Independent Bank. (..)

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Top 10 Social Media Countries | Penn Olson: "While the list is pretty comprehensive, one might argue that the comparison is according to absolute terms rather than population proportion (like how we compared Facebook users in Singapore and the U.S), it still works as a good indicator of the top social media countries."

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

3 Mission Critical Reasons to Convert Fans and Followers into Email Subscribers | Social Media Explorer : Your Social Network is Going to Be Replaced Have you stopped to think about what would happen to your corporate investment in social media if Facebook disappeared tomorrow?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In a study on the average gift value of donors directed to JustGiving pages via social media, Twitter prompts came out on top, with an average gift from someone coming from a Twitter link worth 30.26, compared with just 18.33 on Facebook.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Work Smart 2: Improving Your Organization's Social Media Presence | Fast Company: "Organizations using social media, there's something you must know: getting thousands of Facebook fans or Twitter followers isn't as important as what you do with them.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Social Media Power #GivingTuesday Holiday Giving Effort - Prospecting - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : While it is too early to tally how many charities are participating and how much money has been raised, it’s not too soon to monitor the considerable social-media buzz for #GivingTuesday, (..)

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media | Fast Company: "In this excerpt from his new book UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. author Scott Stratten shows the profane acts users of Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn commit. Start Engaging. How many are you guilty of?"

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Amit Gupta's Social Media-Fueled Battle With Leukemia Reverberates Around The World | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation : ou may have heard this all before. It's a powerful example of how social media can make lasting, life-saving change--not just for one man, but for an entire population in need of bone marrow.

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