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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. 3) Your YouTube Channel is absent of customization and branding.

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Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. You’ll need a photo editing tool to drag and drop your logo or avatar onto your images, but the extra step is worth your time. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

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Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). 3) YouTube. Create a YouTube Channel/Google Account. Design your YouTube Channel. Apply to the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Create a Google account.

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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. Also, as you’ll see in Chapter 5, you will need a Google account to set up a YouTube Channel properly. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites.

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

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allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Without tracking how many clicks the links you post on Twitter are receiving, you are Tweeting blindly. It also allows you to track your own tweets to see who is favoriting them. on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

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YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Website: pancan.org.

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10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

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LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, Google+, Vine, Tumblr? One obvious sign that your nonprofit is on the right track is that you have added calls-to-follow to your “Thank You” landing page and follow-up “Thank You” email. Yeah, right. Social media is in a weird transition right now. Get ready!