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Pheed and Sulia: Two New Social Networks for the Nonprofit Early Adopters

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Followers tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase and being one of the first nonprofits to have a presence on a new social network tends to solidify their popularity on the social network over time. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens? Pheed :: pheed.com :: pheed.com/nonprofitorgs.

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Mastering Social Networking as a Volunteer

Amy Sample Ward

On Facebook , as a volunteer you will need to consider the options of using your personal profile, creating a page, or starting a group. Mastering social networking as a volunteer. Here are some Twitter-specific tools: Twitalyzer. hashtags.org. Bit.ly, goo.gl, t.co, TinyURL, youtu.be, s.coop. Tweetdeck, Hootsuite.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. Here are a few reasons why using multiple social networking platforms doesn’t just mean you repeat your effort. Community First.

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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

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Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Social networking communities are migrant communities. Five Lessons Learned.

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Is it illegal to give away social networking profiles in exchange for a donation to charity?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When I first started DIOSA Communications I also offered social media training to small businesses, but my background and interest was much more aligned with the nonprofit sector so I stopped offering small business services in 2010. Social Media' Small Business LinkedIn Group :: 2,386 Members [The name can be changed].

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages.

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ATTN Nonprofits: Instagram Has Launched New Profiles for Desktop

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Mashable wrote up thorough post on Instagram’s new profile pages for Desktop last week, but I wanted to emphasize four points useful for nonprofits: 1) The photos in banner across the top of the new profiles are automatically generated from the photos you have uploaded using Instagram’s mobile apps.

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