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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. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images.

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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. The Daily Show remembers the important stories of 2011 so you don’t have to. . However, 2012 is a different story all together: TV: Stand Up To Cancer. Wrap your head around the Cloud.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Snapchat

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Similar to the early days of Myspace and its users mastering HTML hacks and widgets, Snapchat has an equally dedicated user base of young people that pride themselves on becoming skilled at Lenses, Filters, Stickers, and other Snapchat tips, tricks, and hacks. Share your first Snap to “My Story.”

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), Before Myspace then Facebook and then Twitter, I was a voracious reader. You are not going to be a very good storyteller if you don’t read stories.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. Page Fundraisers.

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People of the Year: US

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"But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities.

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