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Nonprofit Communications Plan: How-To Identify an Audience and Create an Avatar

Bloomerang

Brainstorm different groups of people you hope to reach that can help you accomplish your organization’s objectives. Your audience should feel as though your content was written directly to them, which is where constructing an avatar – or ideal customer – comes into play. We will talk more about avatars in just a moment.

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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. 9) Join and participate in LinkedIn Groups. Strangely, nonprofits have been slow to embrace LinkedIn.

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Donor Personas: How to Identify Your Unique Donor Audience

CauseVox

Communication Preferences: Which groups of donors like to be communicated with via email, social media, direct mail, or phone calls? After choosing a few donor segments that you’d like to focus on, you can take it a step further by sending out a survey to this group to gather even more information. Let’s explore an example.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos. There’s way too much marketing happening on social networking sites and not enough storytelling. Add your nonprofit under “Employment.”

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Connect in Person at #NCVS

Amy Sample Ward

Participants will learn about best practices and work in small groups to put learning into practice. Attendees can join a tour of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life or learn how to use digital storytelling and Facebook for quick and easy updates to keep connected to supporters. Technology Planning for Nonprofits Session.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping. Facebook Messenger has 1.3

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