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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. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.”

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your supporters and donors now expect well-executed, integrated social media campaigns. Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. The era of “winging” it in social media is over.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. 4096 Color Wheel :: ficml.org/jemimap/style/color/wheel.html.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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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. The video(s) does not need to be highly-produced or expensive, but it should be positive, on the short side, and integrated into all your nonprofit’s communications: VIDEO: Thank You from Operation Smile.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. local time). It starts in the home.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jonathan Fanton, above next to my Second Life avatar, engaged in a discussion with Philip Rosedale (Linden) of Linden labs about the role of civil society in virtual worlds and answered questions from the more than 200 avatars that packed the space. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream.

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