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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008.

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Guest Post: 8 Simple Ways to Improve Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Double the Donation

Letting supporters know that their donation will help feed a family of four or send a child to school for a year is more impactful than asking for a specified amount of money. When creating content, make sure you identify the action you want your reader to take and clearly communicate it (without adding several other asks!).

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. They were talking about API’s.

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RIP Google Reader: Don’t Scream Who Moved My Cheese, Pivot Your Reading

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In online discussions with nonprofit techies, Megan Keane pointed to the loss of an anti-censorship tool in places like Iran, and Nancy Schwartz noted in an online discussion, “this is a kick to independent content publishing, not just convenience on the readers side. ” moment.

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How Do You Browse By Category Blog Content from NpTech Bloggers?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have many years of blog content. Tony Karrer suggested that the approach of aggregating the RSS feeds of blogs, adding in semantic tagging, keyword search and browsable index might help. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. I have a confession. To be clear Nptech Bloggers is a point of departure.

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Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" November 20, 2008 | Jordan Viator Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Komen for the Cure race.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog.

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