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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. Study their websites and blogs. Learn Basic HTML. Learn from them.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), 9) Browse pictures of baby animals regularly. It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. yourname@amnesty.org.

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Can Social Media Create and Spread Revolution?

Care2

“It's actually been interesting to watch as a case study in the enduring power of traditional media. Similar discussions surfaced last year during Iran’s Green Revolution, when many people on social media overlaid a green shade to their avatars and profile pictures to show their solidarity with the people of Iran.

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HealthCare.gov: A Model Facebook Page

Forum One

The new HealthCare.gov Facebook Page borrows design and functional cues from its well-received web site, and, in most respects, represents an exemplary case study of a Facebook Page done right. A blue gradient extends below the profile picture to make it feel integrated into the page. The Page includes six tabs.

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Social Media Roadblock: An Interview with Wendy Harman, Red Cross - Social Media Strategy Case Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also encouraged people to change their avatars (see above). I'd try to figure out how in the world to measure how many people changed their avatars. Opportunities to showcase social media's value in context of a larger picture is always useful here, so that's why we jumped on this one. The Social Media Roadblock.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

In their excitement to share what they did, they posted pictures. Unfortunately, they did not have releases for the children's pictures. Should you have a dress and behavior code for staff and others who become "friends", including their avatars? On one site, she clicks on an employee.

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(Not a) Game Friday: Virtual Worlds 101

Museum 2.0

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. Websites are more like picture books about the museum—in virtual worlds, you can have a social, real-time, interactive experience. Go and do some studies and publish them.

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