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The Most Common (Yet Completely Obvious) Mistake Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Yet everyday on Twitter and (especially) Facebook nonprofits are sending out hundreds of thousands of Tweets and Status Updates with completely wrecked avatars. The visual appeal of your social media avatar is very important to the success of building your online brand. The sooner you start using an square avatar, the better.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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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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Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

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They aren’t cluttering Pinterest with boring photos and seemingly endless marketing pitches. Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. Their content is good.

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Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Pin your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good photo! Tap into that power by pinning your own website and blog content, but only if it pulls up a good, visually appealing photo. So, for example, I am going to pin a blog post from the Nature Conservancy Blog : Step One :: Use Good Photos on Your Website and Blog.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

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Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Write content and secure photos for website pages. Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Create and organize photos into collections and sets. Set up Flickr Profile. Write content and secure photos for blog pages. Create a Google account.

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

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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. Flickr and Digital Photography: 5 Hours Weekly. All nonprofits should also experiment with Twitter. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Dipity :: dipity.com. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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