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ATTN Nonprofits: Instagram Has Launched New Profiles for Desktop

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mashable wrote up thorough post on Instagram’s new profile pages for Desktop last week, but I wanted to emphasize four points useful for nonprofits: 1) The photos in banner across the top of the new profiles are automatically generated from the photos you have uploaded using Instagram’s mobile apps.

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Four Creative Uses of Facebook Profile Pics by Nonprofits on Facebook Pages

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Beyond the obvious graphic design work, what’s exceptionally clever is that they have created long vertical profile pics that when cropped in Status Updates produce a solid, square avatar that’s seen by their Fans in their News Feeds. AIDS Health Care Foundation :: facebook.com/AIDShealth.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. LinkedIn Profiles. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Cause Awareness & Giving Day Campaigns for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each state organizes giving campaigns through local community foundations. $68 Provide sample email text and social media graphics and avatars to your ambassadors. In the weeks leading up to your giving day campaign, email your ambassadors and ask them to update their social media profiles and email friends and family.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. Define Your Goals and Objectives.

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10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Small nonprofits can barely invest the time it takes to manage a Facebook Page and Twitter Profile. Therefore, below are 10 tell-tale signs that your small nonprofit is on the right path and laying a good foundation for excelling at social media. LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, Google+, Vine, Tumblr? Yeah, right.

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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. Then I teleported off to the Berkman Center discussion on Avatar Marketing. One of them is " Make A Wish Foundation."