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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Follow More on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My guess is that they don’t want to follow a lot of Twitterers because they don’t want to clutter their “Home” feed, and I understand that, but nonprofits can easily manage the chaos of following hundreds or thousands Twitterers by simply organizing them into Twitter Lists. As of today that number is 82,250.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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Social media is time consuming and if you aren’t doing it right, you’re wasting your time. 1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Many nonprofits don’t even bother to upload an avatar or channel background, or add links to their social networks or website. Google, etc.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. A time investment of more than a few hours.

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Confessions of a Non-Profit IT Director

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My mental image of him for a very long time was the painting of St. He uses a red haired avatar , so that has been my mental image of him. It's more personal than e-mail in many ways when someone takes the time to leave a comment for instance. How much time do you spend blogging? Do your work colleagues follow your blog?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones.