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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. 10) Your Flickr stream has hundreds of photos named “ jpeg.”

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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. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. That said, most posts to the Google+ Stream should include a personal message and thumbnail.

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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. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream. That said, most posts to the Google+ Stream should include a personal message and thumbnail.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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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.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Pinterest

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It will automatically pull in your avatar, apply your Twitter username to your Pinterest account (such as pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs ), and sync your account with Twitter in case you occasionally want to share Pinterest Pins with your Twitter community. If you have a Twitter account, sign up with your Twitter username and password.

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Spotted: Another Hold The Sign Meme on Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. The Flickr stream is here. Unfortunately, most of the photos are under an "All Rights Reserved" copyright which can be a barrier to spreading them because you have to ask permission. It's cool to see these in flickr, an even cooler in Second Life - like the Avatars Against War.

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