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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. 3) Your YouTube Channel is absent of customization and branding.

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11 Nonprofits That Excel at Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your nonprofit can learn a lot from the 11 (mostly large) nonprofits listed below by simply following, liking, and subscribing to their e-newsletter, blog, Facebook Page, Twitter, YouTube Channel, etc. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your blog. Create a YouTube Channel/Google Account. 7) Blogging.

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Once you start browsing around and experimenting, you’ll quickly come to realize that there are a phenominal number of free Twitter tools now available to nonprofits – that can also be used to improve website, e-newsletter, blogging, and social media campaigns. channel/BigCatRescue. Make sure you create a Bit.ly

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. Also, as you’ll see in Chapter 5, you will need a Google account to set up a YouTube Channel properly. Study their websites and blogs.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. Blogging: 10 Hours Weekly. To blog effectively, a nonprofit must allocate a minimum of 10 hours per week to blogging.

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Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted by Harvard Berkman Center , and visited a donation site for the Make A Wish Foundation. I'm pleased to say that I've perfected my notetaking techniques and am more comfortable with the multi-channel chat and IM. Except for two things.