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How To: Use Social Media To Boost Nonprofit Fundraising

TechImpact

Here are 5 tips to help your nonprofit take the next step in its social media fundraising efforts. These alerts usually shows your avatar and often time your bio. Make sure your avatar and bio information is up to date and start actively following as people in your community. Visual storytelling. Follow more.

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Tips for Making the Most of Tweetups

Amy Sample Ward

I’m sure that you’ll have more to add—and I hope you will—but, here’s my list of key tips for making the most of tweetups! Tip #1: Share Great Stories. You aren’t bound to 140 character updates any more, so let your storytelling flow! Tip #2: Ask Hard Questions. Tip #3: Meet Real People.

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Donor Personas: How to Identify Your Unique Donor Audience

CauseVox

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. Pro Tip: It is really helpful (and fun!) Let’s explore an example. Let’s imagine you are the Director of Development for an animal welfare nonprofit. It is a win/win!

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Connect in Person at #NCVS

Amy Sample Ward

Attendees can join a tour of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life or learn how to use digital storytelling and Facebook for quick and easy updates to keep connected to supporters. Quick tips and tools will be provided on how to get started as well as support for more advanced users.

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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.), You are not going to be a very good storyteller if you don’t read stories. 10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout. Reading books does that.

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9 Must-Know Best Practices for Distributing Your Nonprofit’s Content on Social Networks

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Internet is at a tipping point. Prioritize storytelling over marketing. If you make storytelling a higher priority than marketing, then over time your nonprofit’s brand becomes synonymous with the cause(s) you advocate. The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And then another tip that I would say is for board members, in general, we set up ACHs, which was automatic drafts. That’s a tip. So that’s just a little tip on something that I know that worked for me. Those are just some of the little tips that I learned along the way. So keep that in mind.

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