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Know Your Volunteers To Drive Better Volunteers

TechImpact

of of Americans over the age of 16 volunteered in some capacity between 2009, and 2013. Now that you know exactly which volunteers you’re trying to attract to your nonprofit, target the call-to-action copy on your email blasts, website copy, and social media feeds that will appeal to that demographic.

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Eight Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make When They First Join Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A 2009 study study by HubSpot found that not having uploaded an avatar decreases your followers by up to 80% and my guess is that the data from that study still speaks true today. Makes a Poor First Impression on Twitter: Makes a Good First Impression on Twitter: 3) Not entering your nonprofit’s website. 5) Using all CAPS.

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Great reads from around the web on January 13th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This is the Top 10 list of the best social campaigns featured on Osocio in 2009. " Deadline: January 31, 2010.

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The Complete Guide to Facebook Ads for Nonprofits

Qgiv

Since 2009, Facebook has provided the option to create featured ads on their platform to help businesses and organizations reach others’ newsfeeds. Include calls to action in your ads that direct your supporters to your website or a specific project’s landing page. Use bright colors to help your post stand out from others on the feed.

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10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Then 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites. I thought it was important to lay the foundation of group texting and mobile websites for nonprofits before moving into examining how nonprofits are using iPhone Apps: 1. Updated: May 6, 2009. This application funnels numerous Surfrider Foundation feeds to one place. App Name: NPR News.

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Three Things That Happen When Facebook Pages Reach 10,000 Fans

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2008, many of the friends of the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace migrated over to Facebook, then in 2009 and 2010 a good number of the new fans came from @NonprofitOrgs on Twitter. One website may lose its popularity for the next, but I have found that your friends, fans and followers move with you to next one.

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We’re all together now

Judi Sohn

I’ve decided to bring everything together again by continuing my website going forward on WordPress.com. For those playing at home I now have content here originally from Blogger (the first post or two in early 2003), MovableType (2003-2006), WordPress self-hosted (2006-2009), Posterous (2009-2011) and now WordPress.com.

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