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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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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Today, the overuse of hashtags is considered hashtag spamming. Customized for small nonprofits on a limited budget, the Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits webinar highlights current trends in using social media for fundraising, advocacy, and storytelling. Not anymore. 6) Utilize Instagram Charitable Giving Tools.

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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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4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should Quit a Social Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The groups had become a burden to manage and now with only one group remaining, I can commit myself to being a better group manager ( translation: deleting spam and spammers faster). Real-time storytelling and reporting using mobile apps such as Instagram, Periscope, and Snapchat is increasing rapidly in popularity.

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Nonprofit Technology News for August 2013

Tech Soup

These services, by-the-way, are different from spam filtering services like Postini , GFI.com, or Spamcop. Worldometers is a website that provides world statistics updated in real-time in categories ranging from world population to stats about energy and water consumption. They are cloud-based services so are priced per user per month.

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5 Ways Mobile Giving Can Boost Your Nonprofit Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

We often hear from nonprofits that they are worried about spamming donors. If that is your concern, I ask you this: do you think the donors who received that same text as I did were unsubscribing as a result of spam? Mobile Stats and Facts. Probably not. But it’s worthwhile (and necessary!) Happy Fundraising!

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Year-End Appeal Guide

The Modern Nonprofit

It’s cheaper to do than you might think, and stats show that your appeal will be 50% more likely to succeed if you do! Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. Those stats you used earlier? Consider creating image templates that are ready to plug-in with campaign stats and updates.

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