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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. 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. YouTube.com/nonprofits.

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Donor Personas: How to Identify Your Unique Donor Audience

CauseVox

This gives you a great place to start as you segment your donors based on shared characteristics such as age, interests, giving preferences, and motivations. Persona Development Now that you have a lot of really insightful data, it is time to create the avatar of who your ideal donor is. Let’s explore an example. It is a win/win!

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Tips for Making the Most of Tweetups

Amy Sample Ward

This coming Thursday is the next NFPTweetup , taking place at JustGiving ’s new offices. Tip #1: Share Great Stories. NFPTweetups and other events where online networks come together offline are unique opportunities and hear from practioners and colleagues and get the “real story.&# Lesson: Listen! So, make friends!

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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.), So much of social media success is about how our brains process and prioritize messages and having a diverse thought process that sparks our imagination and creativity.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The third post in this series, 10 Donation Page Best Practices for Nonprofits , provides detailed advice, but its worth reiterating that the first step in being successful in online fundraising is having well-designed, data-driven donation pages. Fundraiser Stickers for Facebook Stories. 3) Launch a Tribute Giving Program.

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7 Online Fundraising Tips I Learned By Participating in Movember

NetWits

This gave me a great place to experiment with some different fundraising and communication tactics. Part of the reason my email campaign was successful was because I had carefully selected my list of recipients. Multimedia Tells the Story. If you check out my page , you can see that the entire campaign was run online.

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stacy Surla invited me to participate remotely at the IA Summit taking place this weekend in Las Vegas on a panel about IA in Second Life and informal poster session to introduce Second Life to IA folks. The dots represent data - some brought in by RSS feeds pertaining to geocoded stories from that area or you can click through to a web site.