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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Like breaking news, cause awareness and giving day tweets have a short news cycle in the here and now that Twitter users respond to.

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Qgiv Partner Showcase: Achieve

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The initial study was focused on how Millennials engaged with causes and charities and how they contributed. At that stage in their lives, they were involved in non-traditional philanthropy, like peer-to-peer fundraising and promoting causes they believe in online through social media.

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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Last year, I had the unique privilege to help facilitate The Local Philanthropy Workshop with the TechSoup Romania team. Resources: Global Voices has created a Guide to Blog For A Cause. It was a lot of fun, and as much as I was asked to share some of my knowledge and ideas, I learned a great deal from the local participants.

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How Networked Nonprofits Use Twitter and Other Things I learned in Vegas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I parachuted into BlogWorld 2010 in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. I presented on two panels (How Nonprofits Use Twitter and CrowdSourced Philanthropy) in the Cause Track curated by Chris Noble and the good folks at WhatGives. Crowdsourced Campaigns for Causes: Benefiting social good or just social?

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. A Causes widget that points to charitable actions and donations on other sites such as Global Giving and Facebook Causes. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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70+ Free Nonprofit Resources to Help You Raise More

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By tapping into the plethora of free resources, your team can better prepare for your fundraising campaigns to raise more money and more awareness for your cause. The Philanthropy United Podcast. Take a look at this newsletter for updates on different nonprofit causes. Fundraising is Funny. This podcast by Lynne Wester and T.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand? Birthday Greeting.

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