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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. For the first time, readers could comment and share their opinions publicly on a piece of online content. Comments were taken very seriously, and in some cases, coming up with response was an agonizing, overthought experience.

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success. 3) Social media burnout. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival.

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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. There was a great question about social networking and representing one's organization posted on the Social Networking Affinity Group at NTEN by K.E: Here's another one called " Meet Charlie."

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6 Types of Nonprofit Video Messages

Greater Giving

There are several approaches that can be taken to achieve this goal, but it is important to remember the main issue that matters most to your organization. Raise awareness about who you are and what you do and inspire people to act by offering a donation, spreading the message over social media, or by taking some other specific action.

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PBS ShowCase Presentation: Social Media Adoption Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

tools from outside the United States that help digital activists evade Internet censorship and promote human rights issues to a wider audience. It takes trial and error to figure that for each organization as issues, causes, and audiences differ. Please leave a pointer in the comments.

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Think Global, Act Local

Connection Cafe

I, personally, have a renewed interest in local issues after losing my power over four times in the last year. For organizers, identifying your grasstops, or influencers, has become a cinch in the world of social networking. The WCS success story is one of hundreds that happen each year.

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How Sticky is Facebook? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reader Comments (7) Excellent stats Allyson. Do you think Facebook is sticky?