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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

The safest way to have interns participate in social media is to have them analyze the data and then come up with sample posts for the platform. Have your interns take the Whole Whale Be Your Own Social Media Guru course to better understand the theory and analytics behind major platforms.

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Four Recommendations for Personal and Professional Branding

Amy Sample Ward

In preparation for their presentation, they circulated a survey to over 200 nonprofit professionals, asking how they use various social platforms. The responses lean towards a reality in which our online presence is just as diverse as our offline personalities – people are connecting with a mix of others on difference platforms.

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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Toddy. There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects. Add your comments below.

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5 Assumptions Every Community Manager Should Make Daily

Amy Sample Ward

on social media platforms like Facebook each day. This is especially true if you have a separate community platform connected to your website or operated specifically for your community online. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. Well, those are my five; but I have no doubt there are many more lessons and assumptions out there.

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

So often I find that we are too quick to say that because a website doesn’t have our domain, a tool is downloaded to our computer, or a platform doesn’t have our developers working on it that we can’t be responsible for measuring and analyzing the way we use it. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Do-It-Yourself.

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Facebook Changes for Organization Pages: Focus On Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. The new skills are learning how to be a good community manager – and focus on relationships with people, not tactics on specific platforms. One of the principles is to listen, learn, and adapt and stay informed. That is what a lot of us are doing. And, that is how they measure success.

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Net2 Think Tank & Social Innovation Review: Changing Role of Nonprofits

Amy Sample Ward

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them. What do you think?

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