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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans , or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. Finally, events, like docs, also have a comment stream attached.

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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement

NTEN

Twitter should be used for cultivation, not broadcasting. Focused engagement, with direct messages, replies, and retweets required a different process and purpose than broadcast messages. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Stacey uses it for one-to-one personal connections.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. JustCoz.org is a platform that enables charities, nonprofits, and NGOs to increase their social media reach by way of tweet and status update donations. JustCoz.org :: justcoz.org.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

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They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. PT also broadcasts some of the events using livestream.com. A print magazine is one of PT's main activities, providing an additional channel for the global community of young Jews to exchange ideas. .

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2014 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Ideas for 2015

NTEN

Presenter Combinations One bucket of feedback we''ve heard and felt in the past is that the NTC is a valuable platform for many voices in this community - from people that have never had an opportunity to professionally present but have lots of great ideas and experience to share, to community leaders who many are eager to hear from.

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most nonprofits have not yet embraced Twitter’s new Vine App , thus they may not have an understanding of how to record and broadcast the world (and social good) in six second bites. Even more amazing, their smartphone and tablet apps allow you to broadcast live from anywhere, anytime… for free. Vine :: vine.co.

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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Change.org is the world’s largest petition platform. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc.

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