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8 Random But Useful Social Media Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Adding a complete address to your Facebook Page activates Facebook Location. Facebook Location enables fans to check-in to your page and review your nonprofit. Fans can “Save” your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. The optimal aspect ratio for Twitter photos is 2:1. For example, 1024 x 512 pixels.

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Guest Post: Facebook Video Tips from Non-Profit Marketers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Is Facebook Live or posting videos part of your nonprofit’s strategy for 2018? Using a tool like Animato can make it easy for your nonprofit to create DYI videos, but to be successful you need to develop a strategy and use compelling storytelling. Over 80% of Facebook’s users are checking out the app on mobile.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Posting more than one status update a day on Facebook. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter. Craziness!

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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations and brands with a profile type akin to the options for individuals and Pages on Facebook. One of the core principles in community engagement is to use the tools your community is using.

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Content Curation: The Art and Science of Spotting Awesome

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. If you are finding yourself looking through a lot of unrelated or useless stuff or the content you are sharing is not resonating with your audience, news discovery tools can help. What content discovery tools do you use?

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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

Neon CRM

Surveys can be a great tool for this. As a result, you can show that most of your social media-related donations come from platforms like Facebook and Twitter, while TikTok-based contributions are negligible. Neon CRM is a tool that helps many leaders support their nonprofit business plan with critical data and insights.

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