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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. YouTube.com/nonprofits. Enough said.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. You are not going to be a very good storyteller if you don’t read stories. Reading books does that.

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10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

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Even more cumbersome is the trend to not only publish your stories on your blog and website, but to also have to publish them on Medium , Steller , as Facebook Notes , on LinkedIn Publisher , and soon directly into Google.com. Your nonprofit blogs or publishes a story on your website at least twice monthly. We’ve all heard it.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

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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 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. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

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I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Your supporters also want to see what your staff and working space look like – the human beings behind the avatar, if you will. Watch this technology closely!

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Leading A Session from SecondLife

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He was participating via SecondLife as an on-screen avatar. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? You can read more about it on Barry’s blog.