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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. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. into Google+.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How many social media tools your nonprofit can use effectively is directly related to the number of hours your nonprofit can invest. If your nonprofit wants to use the majority of the tools listed here effectively, then you need to hire a full-time social media manager. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace launched in 2003, and yet nine years into the Social Web the vast majority of nonprofits have not invested any financial resources at all into graphic design for their social media campaigns. You need a good avatar. Related Links: 11 Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. However, as I learned from spending two weeks in Asia this past December , the news sources you watch and consume can dramatically effect your consciousness and ultimately your social media voice.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. That was a question posed on a listserv with little response except for this observation: Micro-campaign 'competitions' are not going to last as an effective means of NPO fundraising. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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