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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

TechSoup's own Kevin Lo noticed some strange activity on his email accounts when friends were replying to spam he was supposedly sending out. The Chronicle of Philanthropy picked up the story when it broke and used it as a call to action for nonprofits to update their systems. Paranormal Email Activity. You can fight back!

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

James Rooney, senior manager of Microsoft Philanthropies, kicked off the first day's general session, highlighting the free cloud services available to nonprofits. You can enter to win on this site. Please visit the site to view this video). Nonprofits Get Free Microsoft Azure Credits.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Slide Share Show, " Putting the U in YouTube " although geared for higher education institutions provides some really good practical marketing tips for social networking sites that should be useful for nonprofits too. The Seattle's Net Tuesday Group has just launched a social networking site on ning. NetSquared. NpTech Talk.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam.

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Great reads from around the web on July 1st

Amy Sample Ward

" The Internet has become a spontaneous, grassroots fundraising tool – Small Act – "Philanthropy has turned on its ear. The answer to the question lies in understanding your nonprofit social media supporters and identifying which ones are the most well-connected, influential, and, in a word, social. Why is this happening?

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Philanthropy has always been primarily a concern of older people. 5) The furor about “junk mail” is mild compared to that about spam—as it should be, because online communications is prey to all sorts of fraud. In other words, the “young donor” is largely a myth. I love my 800 friends on Facebook.

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