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How To Get a Wikipedia Page for Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What has been your experience getting a Wikipedia Page for your nonprofit? Because it was such a painfully long process and because I couldn’t find too many complete articles when I googled “ Wikipedia nonprofits “, I decided to share the lessons we learned so that you may not make the same mistakes we made.

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Google Search Results Now Prominently Feature Nonprofit Google+ Pages

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Data is pulled from multiple sources including Wikipedia , GuideStar and of course Google+ Pages. Sierra Club :: Impact of Google+ Page and Wikipedia. Google Plus Social Media' Feeding America :: Impact of GuideStar. Field Museum :: Impact of Google+ Local. Related Links: Nonprofit Organizations on Google+.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

My contribution to the panel is to provide context about the use of social media in emergency and disaster response as well as an overview of some of the tools we saw deployed last year and we may see in the future. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people. Why Social Media? Citizen-Powered Response.

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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

It might be Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an incredible place to reach hungry learners and join a community of dedicated researchers who care deeply about making knowledge accessible to everyone. This isn't rocket science, but it's surprising how few museums have gotten involved with Wikipedia. Anyone can contribute to it.

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2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, please also see public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months when planning your campaigns. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2017 and 2018 editorial calendars. 15: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay.

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NTEN Webinar: Social Media Building Blocks

Amy Sample Ward

NTEN & TechSoup have teamed up to deliver a series of webinars on storytelling and social media - and I’m the presenter for the first one! Wikipedia says: A webinar is a neologism to describe a specific type of web conference. In this webinar we’ll discuss the fundamentals of sharing information with social media tools.

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Nonprofits and Social Media: Seth Godin, Beth Kanter and The Chronicle of Philanthropy All Chime In

NetWits

If not, make sure to check out his blog and what Wikipedia has to say about him. Godin says that nonprofits are resistant to change and slow to adopt social media as well as the free online tools available to them. You might be thinking to your self, “Why is Frank asking me this?”