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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Be sure to provide them with content they can share about the events such as sample tweets and Facebook status updates. Here’s a great example of material for event ambassadors from last years’s Giving Tuesday. Charity:Water used it for its Rwanda Campaign. The latter is especially important for virtual events.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people. The value of doing an extended peer learning exchange is that participants get the opportunity to put the ideas in practice and apply what they learned.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lini Srivasta , who has been thinking, writing, and doing projects on these themes, offered this: ”We need to have a deeper understanding of the ways in which the reach, speed, and scale of content distribution and the nature of the content can and will continue to affect geopolitical situations.

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Nine Digital Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn from charity: water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Create Content That People Will Fall in Love With.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics Potential Catalyst for Human Rights

Have Fun - Do Good

As a result, the UN is making the same mistakes it made on Darfur and Rwanda. Disband the Publicity Department (the former Propaganda Department), which exercises daily control over content in the Chinese press. Suspend the '11 Commandments of the Internet,' which lead to content censorship and self-censorship on websites.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

Have Fun - Do Good

We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. Our office in Rwanda was supposed to be our next office opening anytime now, but because of the war in the Congo, visas and business licenses and things like that have been put on hold. We are hopeful that we will be in Rwanda by the end of the year.

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Video Making for Nonprofits

The Modern Nonprofit

But producing a great video is a real challenge: you must create compelling content, shoot and edit your footage so that it comes across as professional and engaging, and then promote your video so it can make the most impact. Optimize your content: Keeping your goal in mind, write out your ideas and think of the story you’d like to tell.

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