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The Importance of Branding Your Nonprofit on Social Networks Through Graphic Design

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Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.

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Why Nonprofits Should Sync Their Twitter and MySpace Accounts

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Thousands of nonprofits haven’t logged into their MySpace profiles in months, or even a year or more. That said, MySpace is not dead. Age, class, race, and location play a huge role in who uses what social networking sites. I created the Nonprofit Organizations MySpace in 2006. Comments are up.

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Seeking Feedback: Should “Nonprofit Organizations” Go Through a Rebranding?

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The “Nonprofit Organizations” brand was launched in February 2005 on Myspace. At the core of the brand is the Nonprofit Organizations avatar which has been used consistently since then to build a visual brand across many social networks ( Facebook , Twitter , Pinterest , etc). A graphic, not an image.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Add links to your website, blog, and social networking communities to your Google Profile.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. Make new friends (Google+) and keep the old (Myspace).

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

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What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2)

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