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Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Similar to adding hashtags to tweets, you can also add hashtags to descriptions to increase the likelihood of your nonprofit’s pins showing up in Pinterest searches. Be sure to use common search terms or hashtags and avoid being a hashtag spammer. Add your logo or avatar to your images. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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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. 2) You are rarely retweeted on Twitter. into Google+.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. BlogPulse :: blogpulse.com.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. BlogPulse :: blogpulse.com.

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HOW TO: Launch an iPhone App for Your Nonprofit for $25 a Month

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As an iPhone user, I personally would love to download the Apps of my favorite nonprofits and have their avatars displayed on my iPhone. A quick search of the term “nonprofit&# in the iTunes App store returns less than 50 Apps, and most of those are miscategorized Apps. so early adoption is the key to getting the most downloads.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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If your nonprofit is on the right track with social media, then you’ll notice an increase in the metrics from month to month over time. Fill out a query to search “everything” for your nonprofit’s name and acronym. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. Learn Basic HTML.

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Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Similar to adding hashtags to tweets, you can also add hashtags to descriptions to increase the likelihood of your nonprofit’s pins showing up in Pinterest searches. Be sure to use common search terms or hashtags and avoid being a hashtag spammer. Add your logo or avatar to your images. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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