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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. If your nonprofit doesn’t, then either decide not to use Twitter or tweet minimally with low expectations.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. We scrape it together. Our stories come from our heart.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread: Create a Collaborative Multi-Media Presentation

Wild Apricot

VoiceThread, named one of Webware's top 100 web apps for 2008, is an online media album tool that lets a group of people easily add their comments to a collection of images, videos, and documents.

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The Mother-Led Movement to Save Our Kids’ Climate

Saleforce Nonprofit

FBE: I’d say three things: Motivation — As a parent who has been involved with climate change since 2008, I know what’s at stake for our children. In the process, I have experienced exhaustion and decided to quit my day job to focus solely on building this movement with the tools at my disposal. The science is frightening. Devi Thomas.

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Tell More Stories to Build Your Movement

Care2

We’ ve talked about the importance of storytelling on Frogloop before. Put Video in your Storytelling Tool-Belt Video is one of the most effective means of storytelling and its a must have for online activists trying to foster movements. In one weekend, the team produced and edited 38 videos from start to finish.

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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

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques.

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