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ATTN Nonprofits: Instagram Has Launched New Profiles for Desktop

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NOVEMBER 11, 2012

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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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. For example: 1.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

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JANUARY 8, 2012

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. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

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FEBRUARY 26, 2012

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. Photos and slideshows. Powerful stats.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

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.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). You are not going to be a very good storyteller if you don’t read stories.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

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APRIL 5, 2021

1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a. After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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11 Types of Photos Nonprofits Should Post on Social Media

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JUNE 25, 2012

To get started, nonprofit social media managers need to learn and feel comfortable with taking a lot of photos at events, on the street, in the office, and on site visits. You are going to need to know where to find photos online and how to source them. Photos with Powerful Statistics: Posted on Facebook by the One Campaign.

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9 Must-Know Best Practices for Distributing Your Nonprofit’s Content on Social Networks

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Prioritize storytelling over marketing. If you make storytelling a higher priority than marketing, then over time your nonprofit’s brand becomes synonymous with the cause(s) you advocate. If you make storytelling a higher priority than marketing, then over time your nonprofit’s brand becomes synonymous with the cause(s) you advocate.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

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JULY 28, 2013

Vinepeek gives you a glimpse of Vine’s potential for visual storytelling. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

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MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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MAY 27, 2010

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. All this inspired by a single woman who had a breast cancer diagnosis and took one photo of herself holding a package of frozen peas on her chest. Think of the impact the folks at Movember are having, only online.)

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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

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AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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ATTN Nonprofits: Instagram Has Launched New Profiles for Desktop

10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits

10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

11 Types of Photos Nonprofits Should Post on Social Media

9 Must-Know Best Practices for Distributing Your Nonprofit’s Content on Social Networks

111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

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