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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter is not for every nonprofit. It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. If your nonprofit has a Twitterer on staff, then set them free to tweet.

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Twitter Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits

NonProfit PRO

Twitter offers countless benefits for nonprofits. Read on for seven best practices to adopt to market on Twitter successfully. However, to enjoy these benefits, you must create a strategy that considers the unique features and qualities of this platform.

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[Webinar] LinkedIn & Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

LinkedIn and Twitter have unique roles in your nonprofit’s social media strategy. LinkedIn is ideal for connecting with sponsors, funders, and thought leaders while Twitter is a fast-moving community built upon real-time news and information sharing. How to use LinkedIn to empower your staff as thought leaders.

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Update: Guidance on Post-Musk Twitter

M+R

Developments out of Twitter have been coming in fast and furious since our last blog post providing initial guidance on Musk-era Twitter. This should be the first thing to do given the volatile situation at Twitter. We recommend waiting for Twitter to roll out this update and not paying for Verification.

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Tweeting through uncertainty: Candid’s approach to nonprofit Twitter

Candid

Since Twitter’s new ownership took over in late October, the social media platform has experienced a significant decline in its userbase—a loss of over 1.3 Candid’s Twitter account alone has lost over 1,000 followers in the same period, and we expect to see this negative trend continue. million active users in one week. Reducing posts.

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48 Nonprofit Twitter Experts Who Tweet Great Advice

Wild Apricot

If you’re looking for nonprofit Twitter tips, here is a list of forty-eight nonprofit experts on Twitter categorized by business area (events, volunteering, marketing, and more).

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Experiment: Does posting more on Twitter pay off?

Candid

While we have a fairly large audience on Twitter (around 145K followers), we only see an average of 1,000 engagements per month. Inspired by Hootsuite’s amazing Experiment Series of blog posts , we thought it would be fun to share our experiment in testing whether posting more on Twitter would lead to higher engagement. .

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#NGOtech19: A 24-Hour Twitter Takeover for NGOs WorldWide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Join Nonprofit Tech for Good, Funraise , and the 2019 Global NGO Technology Report partners for a 24-hour Twitter Takeover on September 26! You can participate and follow the takeovers on Twitter at @NonprofitOrgs. Schedule of Twitter Takeovers on September 26: 10am AEST (Melbourne): Pro Bono Australia.

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[Twitter Takeover] #GivingTuesday: One Day to Make a World of Difference

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please RSVP for the #GivingTuesday Twitter Takeover on Facebook to let us know that you’ll be joining us on June 4th. The impact of GivingTuesday on fundraising and donor behavior, trends in giving, and new findings about the ways people give and what motivates them. Facebook will send a notification on the morning of. Thank you!

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How Twitter Donations Work: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter is experimenting with allowing certain nonprofits to accept donations directly through tweets. Like how only a select few nonprofits had access to Facebook’s early launch of their Facebook Fundraising Tools , only a select few nonprofits currently have access to Twitter Donations. Hint, hint. . See @Water , for example.

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How to Create a Twitter Moment for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Twitter Moments as defined by Twitter are curated tweets collected into a story. First launched in October 2015 in partnership with a select few media partners, as of September 29 all Twitter users can now create Moments. Use the nine steps steps detailed below to guide your nonprofit when creating its first Twitter Moment.

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July 16 Webinar: Twitter and Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet. Twitter Webinars' Related Links: Spring Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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[Twitter Takeover] #ReclaimSocial: A Call to Counteract Negativity on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please RSVP for the #ReclaimSocial Twitter Takeover on Facebook to let us know that you’ll be joining us on June 4th. From big charities to individual acts of kindness, the goal is to make social media for all of us more inspiring and inspire us to be positive every day. Facebook will send a notification on the morning of.

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February 12 Webinar: Twitter and Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet. Related Links: Fall Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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November 6 Webinar: Twitter and Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet. Related Links: Fall Webinar Special for Nonprofits.

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Twitter for Nonprofits in 2018: Rebirth or Retire?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The past year, Twitter has been widely criticized for its role in spreading misinformation , being a Petri dish for hate speech , and how it approaches world leaders use of the platform. You will also see some of the most viscous attacks from trolls on Twitter and they are only rarely quieted with compassion.

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10 Simple Nonprofit Twitter Tips

TechImpact

Twitter is a powerful tool for any nonprofit. It is easy to overlook some small aspects of Twitter, that’s why we’ve compiled this list of simple things you can do to help increase interaction on your nonprofits Twitter account according to Julia Claire Campbell of JC Social Marketing. People love to be mentioned (@) on Twitter.

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50,000 Nonprofits on Twitter!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It took 2 years, 10 months, and 50,000 clicks of a mouse, but yesterday @ NonprofitOrgs followed its 50,000th nonprofit on Twitter! That said, I’ve been saving up and to commemorate 50,000 nonprofits on Twitter I donated $500 to my Favorite Nonprofits. Twitter is much more complicated and fascinating than its first impression.

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How to Use Twitter to Engage the Right Community for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup Blog

Twitter has evolved significantly since it launched in 2006 as a simple, short messaging service. Twitter is no longer simply a platform to "microblog," as it was initially designed. Twitter is now a powerful platform to know, understand, and segment your community.

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25 Must-Follow NGO Resources on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social Media Twitter NGOs' Social BlaBla :: @SocialBlaBla. Souktel :: @Souktel. Tech Change :: @TechChange. UN Foundation :: @UNFoundation. WITNESS :: @WITNESSorg. World NGO Day :: @WorldNGODay.

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Eight Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make When They First Join Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

@NonprofitOrgs only follows nonprofit organizations, nonprofit staff, nonprofit service providers, and activists on Twitter. Many of these folks are new to Twitter and thus I get to see the Twitter debut of many nonprofits and there are eight very common mistakes that newbies make that unknowingly diminish their Twitter ROI from day one.

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How to Find IP from Twitter: Track IP Address on Twitter Now?

Find the free stuff

Are you wondering about how you can get someone’s IP address on Twitter? This guide will put you through the various methods of tracking IP addresses and locations from Twitter. Finding IP addresses from Twitter It is a social networking website that enables you to connect with friends, family, siblings, and loved ones.

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4 Must-Know Features of the New Twitter Profile Design for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This week Twitter began its roll out of a new Twitter Profile design and at any moment your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile could have a completely different look and functionality. Social Media Twitter' Larger Avatar :: 400×400 Pixels :: @ UnicefNZ. A Pinned Tweet :: Feature an Important Tweet :: @ IUPhilanthropy.

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Five Types of Tweets Nonprofits Should Never Post on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit is not getting retweeted on Twitter, then you haven’t yet found your Twitter voice. Retweets ensure than your nonprofit’s avatar get increased exposure on Twitter which ultimately results in more followers and click-through rates. Folks on Twitter don’t want to follow robots.

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12 Nonprofit Call-to-Action Twitter Images to Study and Learn From

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is true that tweets with images receive more engagement , but how much more engagement depends on the quality of the images and if they are properly sized for Twitter ( 1024 x 512 pixels or a 2:1 aspect ratio ).

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How to Multiply Your Nonprofit's Twitter Impressions with Automation

Tech Soup Blog

One way to better harness the power of social media is to optimize the way you use Twitter threads by automating your posting times to reach more of your audience. If you manage social media for a nonprofit, you might wear many hats and may not always have the time or budget to spend on expanding your following.

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50 Best Nonprofit Twitter Accounts to Follow

EveryAction

nonprofit twitter' A frequent assumption is that social media runs itself, but the “build it and they will come” model won’t yield the engagement or impact that you’re looking for.

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20 Tips for Nonprofits Using Twitter

NetWits

This is a follow-up post to yesterday’s “ 10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter ,&# in which we talked about some of the many ways nonprofit can use social media networks, such as Twitter , as a communications vehicle to support their organization’s larger goals. 1 – Chris Tuttle. 1 – Chris Tuttle.

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Webinar: Twitter and LinkedIn for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This webinar begins with a general introduction to Twitter and then quickly moves on to demonstrate how nonprofits can use the site to increase their supporter base, website traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, online donors, and overall visibility on the Internet.

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10 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Twitter

NetWits

Fret not, however, as the number of nonprofits using Twitter continues to grow. However, many are confused about how Twitter can help advance their organization’s goals. Consider how you can use Twitter to network with other professionals in your line of work. Staff Networking. Location Based Services. Timely Actions.

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Newest Changes to Twitter and Facebook

NCE Social Media

Twitter recently announced that they were going to start allowing people who follow your account on Twitter, regardless if you follow them back, to send you direct messages on Twitter. It’s also been reported that you cannot have and weblinks in your Twitter direct messages. What about Facebook?

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11 Nonprofits Utilizing the New Twitter Profile Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The vast majority of nonprofits have yet to utilize the new Twitter profile design that was launched on September 18. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and Twitter Apps. HOW TO: Upgrade Your Nonprofit’s Twitter Profile to the New Design. World Wildlife Fund :: @ WWF.

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Infographic: Nonprofit Twitter Cheat Sheet

TechImpact

Is your nonprofit’s Twitter account lacking? But armed with the right tools, the right knowledge, and a few well written tweets, it won’t take long before your nonprofit’s Twitter account is racking up the engagement numbers. Are you having a hard time gaining followers, getting clicks, retweets, or mentions?

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Infographic: 10 Most Successful Nonprofit Twitter Accounts

TechImpact

So your nonprofit start up their Twitter account a few months ago and you’re rolling about 5-6 Retweeets per day. Here’s a breakdown of just how successful some of these major international Twitter accounts are: Image courtesy of Burson-Marsteller. Not too shabby.

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4 Reasons Nonprofits Should Follow More On Twitter

TechImpact

There are almost 700 million active Twitter users in the world today, and almost 10,000 tweets being sent out per second. How do we connect with people who do not know we have made a Twitter account??. Here are 4 reasons why your nonprofit should start following more people on Twitter, today. Image courtesy of 1stwebdesigner.

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The 140 Best Twitter Feeds

NCE Social Media

Time.com just came out with their “ Best 140 twitter Feeds for 2013.” Since they won’t do it, I think I will come up with a list of the “Best 140 Twitter Disability-Related Feeds for 2013″ but I first want your input. ” However, none are disability-related.

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Twitter Lists for Nonprofits

Amy Sample Ward

Lauren Cochrane has a great post today with ideas for lists organizations could create with Twitter’s new List function. You can read more about Lists on the Twitter Blog here. Tags: community strategy campaigns lists twitter. If you haven’t heard about Lists yet, you’re not behind!

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An online database of Twitter Apps called oneforty currently lists almost 2,900 third-party Twitter Apps. While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. The ten Twitter Apps listed below are 10 of my 25 favorites: 1. TwitPic : TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.

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Using Twitter to Build a Community and Recruit Volunteers

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve presented about Twitter before, as well, so in addition to sharing some notes and resources, and my slides, from the presentation on Friday, I want to also round up other Twitter-related posts and links here. Here are my slides from the VMNC: Twitter Basics for Engaging Volunteers. Twitter Resources.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Follow More on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

How nonprofits choose to follow on Twitter varies widely. Some nonprofits only follow a small of amount of Twitterers, others follow hundreds or thousands, and a few follow more (sometimes a lot more) than they are being followed themselves. Strategic following is covered in more detail in #4 below.

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