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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Humane Society of the United States

Nonprofit Tech for Good

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We don’t use it like we use Facebook, for advocacy, fundraising, and relationship building. Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time?

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Upworthy Type Headlines: To Like or Dislike?

Care2

Please do not run out and start using Upworthy like subject lines on your online advocacy and fundraising appeals. Just like you were never the Obama campaign when their fundraising tactics were all of the rage. Upworthy is a great example of how compelling content can generate a lot of shares and comments on Facebook too.

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How a Few Tiny Horses Bucked the Facebook Algorithm

Tech Soup

The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. If you manage your nonprofit's presence on Facebook, you're probably very familiar with the difficulties of getting fans, likes, and comments on the content you share. Post Timely, Thematic Content.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

Tech Soup

Blackbaud guest bloggers share expert fundraising tips and simple steps for creating a Facebook page that rocks. Learn how to become a social organization with tips from Yammer 's director of community. Learn more about networking hardware solutions from Brocade and online store creation and management from Shopify.

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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. Transparency and Social Media: Dealing with Criticism.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world. Without a doubt, your nonprofit’s donors and supporters use Facebook on a regular basis and thus Facebook should be your first priority in your social media strategy. 1) Set up your nonprofit’s Facebook Page to make a good first impression.

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NpTech Tag Summary: 10 Web 2.0 Things You Can Do In Ten Minutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" He uses the ten things in ten minutes meme and writes the Ten Web 2.0 Set up a feed reader for other organizations in your "subject matter area" and comment on a few blog posts a week or the ten most influential blogs in your area. Things You Can Do in Ten Minutes to Be a More Successful E-learning Professional.

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