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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Signing up for a Google Account gives you immediate access to a number of Google Products while a Google Profile is your online identity inside of the Googleverse. Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Sign up for a Google Account. A Google Account is different from a Google Profile.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. There were a number of social media influentials who reached out to their networks helping to contributing to a community culture of giving on Twitter.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s also worth noting that these time estimates do not include website maintenance, e-newsletter publication, donate now campaign management, or group texting and text-to-give campaigns, so pick and choose carefully based on what your resources allow. It’s better to utilize a few tools very well than many tools poorly.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Pinterest

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. .” Now, just two weeks into January, I am completely addicted to pinning boards for social good on Pinterest.

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Your Tweet Can Leverage A 10 Cent Donation to Care March 2-5th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been on Twitter since almost the beginning and have watched charitable giving and fundraising go from the edge to mainstream. Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . The first Tweet-a-thon took place in September, 2008. Last month, Joel Comm sponsored a Tweet-a-thon.

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M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Online Fundraising: A look at growth in online giving, yearly patterns of giving, average gift size, monthly giving and fundraising messaging rates Online Advocacy: How are advocacy open, click-through, page completion and response rates changing and what impact are super-activists having? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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What's the opportunity cost when a nonprofit blocks employees from using social network sites during work hours?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I truly believe that being present in an open, giving, and transparent way in spaces where your supporters are already spending their time will lead to a stronger loyalty to your mission. 2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. Tell us about your job? that are easy to grab and use.