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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

WordPress plugins, such as SocialSnap or Yoast , allow you to easily set up Twitter Cards for your website and blog, but if your site is not built using WordPress, your website developer will need to customize your website and blog to enable Twitter Cards. If possible, join a Twitter Chat once a month, bi-monthly, or quarterly.

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

5) Send Myself A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. Writing and Blogging: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and on this updated wordpress blog since 2010.

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Best Cloud Tools for your Nonprofit

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Check out William Grassie's article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy out how the Metanexus Institute shaved $176,000 of their annual budget by shifting to cloud based infrastructure. Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The young and the wired are moving at an accelerating pace away from old-school destination Web sites and toward the social media ecosystem embodied in the real-time Web. A sharing and learning hub We invite you to cruise around the site — and we hope you'll help us spread the word. You’ll notice that we’re not starting from scratch.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Hint, drive them to a landing page on your site). View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

Tech Soup

Naples, Florida: Return to Basics: WordPress Walk-in Clinic. So You Have (or Want) a Plone Site. San Francisco, California: An Evening of Tech and Philanthropy: Creating Shared Value for the Bay Area. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. North America.

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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.

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