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11 Tips for Making Nonprofit Press Releases Social and Shareable

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social media has forever changed how nonprofits and journalists distribute and consume news stories, yet the format of nonprofit press releases has not evolved at all. Almost every communication medium out there has been impacted by the rise of social and mobile media, but not press releases.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Big Cat Rescue

Nonprofit Tech for Good

YouTube: youtube.com/BigCatRescue. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Name: Carol Baskin. Title: CEO. Website: BigCatRescue.org. com/savethecats.

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Five Reasons Why Nonprofit Communicators Need Smartphones

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Here are five reasons why: 1) To update social networking profiles on the go. Nonprofit communicators function in many ways these days, and more so in the future, like reporters or a citizen press corps. Geo-location social networks like Foursquare and Gowalla are where the early adopters are flocking to these days.

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9 Social Media for Social Good Sites You Should know About

NetWits

Ten years ago there was no Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But now over 300 million people log-in to Facebook daily, Twitter supports over 50 million tweets per day, and 2 billion videos are watched every day on YouTube. Jumo is another social media for social good platform that entered the mix in 2010. Amazing stuff.

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11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The upper right-hand corner is the most valuable section of your website—use it to plug your e-newsletter and group text messaging campaigns, donate now functionality, and social networking communities. Include Social Media Icons or Graphics. Icons and buttons have strong appeal and impact in Web 2.0 Overall, avoid clutter.

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Nonprofits and Social Networks: Can Your Nonprofit Organization Benefit from No Presence?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup has just published the second article on a three-part series on Social Networks and Nonprofits. The first article, Should Your Organization Use Social Networking Sites? Signs that a social networking site might work ??? or not work ??? This thinking approach keeps us from fondling the hammer.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Those are definitely not the qualities of a good social media manager. However, while in Asia I got to watch CNN Asia and the BBC and read the local press.