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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Tweets overloaded with hashtags look messy, are hard to read, and make your nonprofit look desperate to gain followers.

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The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide

Everyaction

Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Now that you have an idea of how donors in the US are giving, it’s time to look at the methods used to reach these sources. Remember the storytelling part of your case statement?

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did

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Quick Guide to Effective Donor Segmentation for Nonprofits 

Qgiv

Donor segmentation is a method of splitting your donors into multiple groups based on shared characteristics. You’ll also minimize the risk of spamming your supporters with messages they’re unlikely to respond to. How can your organization use donor segments? What are the common types of donor segmentation? What is donor segmentation?

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Online Fundraising Site: How To Create A High-Performing Fundraising Website

CauseVox

1) Visual Storytelling. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Try fitting it into the Pixar Storytelling Framework. spamming) their inbox. Consider this. Updates and news.

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Tools Galore in Online Communications - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Laura: Social media is a big umbrella term that includes blogs, social networks, other online methods by which people pass your message online from person to person. does it rely on graphics/images? Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?)

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How to Use CRM + Donor Management Software to Talk to Anyone

EveryAction

It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each audience, or persona. Reporting to your board of directors. Fundraising reports Communications reports Digital Reports. Communicating with your teams.

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