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5 Tips for Creating Shareable Content Your Audience Will Love

Media Cause

Stay up to date with trends in design and social media trends , and learn how to integrate those elements into your content while staying true to your brand guidelines. Use photos in your designs, ads, social posts, emails, and more! Humans are drawn to human faces. Adding a human face (or even items arranged to look like a face!)

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it’s “Call Me Maybe,” “Sh*t People Say,” or any other meme that comes along, here are three guidelines you can use to decide when and how to get your nonprofit involved in an Internet meme. 3 Guidelines for Nonprofits. Why meme at all? Above all else, don’t compromise your values and mission.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better. In truth, our guidelines are quite vague.

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A Networked Approach to Social Media Strategy: Strategy and Learning Are Key

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo of Iavor Ivanov , Web Experience, United Way (national) Meet Iavor Ivanov, the Director of Web Experience for the United Way (National). Guidelines or best practices that are flexible are important. Wondering where he got that awesome T-shirt? Visit the United Way's LIVE UNITED â„¢ site and run your mouse over the map.

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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo above is the cubicle and workspace of Eric Williams who is a new media designer at the Walker Art Center and one of the staff bloggers who contributes to the Walker New Media Initiative Blog. Has the Walker developed formal guidelines for your posts to the blogs? We started blogging to give a online to a lot of different.

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Are You Content Creation Impaired? Here’s Some Tips and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I shared the framework on this wiki – and encouraged other nonprofit capacity builders to remix it. I was thrilled to see this version (although not a nonprofit specific version) for content marketing from a report by Altimeter. The name references a Martin Luther King quote. Here’s how they applied to content marketing: 1.

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