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Nonprofits Using Twitter: Awareness, Action and Allies

Twitter is a great tool for nonprofits to use. Organizations can harness the power of twitter to build awareness, create action and team up with allies. Twitter is a great way to pique people’s interest in your cause by informing people with small factoids relevant to your cause that may surprise them. @ArmenianEyeCare Give people [...]

Get Your Blog On: Get Your Nonprofit’s Blog Featured

We’ve talked about how social media is an important tool for nonprofits. Nonprofits are diving into Twitter and Facebook, and learning to share great content. What anchors your nonprofit content should be your blog- a place for your nonprofit to have a voice, to share what is going on in your organization, to bring to [...]

8 Nonprofit Facebook Posts We Love & Why

Here are 8 examples of nonprofits sharing on Facebook that are rockin’ it. Click on the name of the organization to visit their Facebook Page and click on the picture of the post to see their post online to “like” it. If you’re looking for ideas to get you going on what to share via [...]

The Juicer: Ideas for your Blog

Blogs are a great way to connect with your donors and supporters and give people insight into the work that you do. Blogs can also help your Facebook get traction. According to John Haydon, “the more content you produce, the more people share it on Facebook.” Why else should you blog for your nonprofit? Blogs [...]

6 Ways to Keep Up Your Social Media Hot Bod

Social Media is like getting into shape. The first battle is getting into shape, and the second battle, which is potentially a greater feat, is to stay in shape. This means that you can’t come and go like a pulsing star that twinkles only on occasion. People won’t spend their time staring into the world [...]

The Moment You Realize There’s More to Facebook than Signing Up

Phase 1 Woohoo! We’re on Facebook! You feel a little giddy. Oh this is sure exciting! Look at all of these people that we can potentially connect with. We can connect with our supporters and even work on building relationships with new supporters and new donors. The possibilities are endless! Phase 2 So proud! Finally [...]

The Social Media Playground

In elementary school you probably looked forward to recess where you could take a break from class and run around. Kids clamored up to the playground to play soccer, shoot hoops, play foursquare, tetherball, hand ball, climb on the jungle gym or run around in packs playing imaginative games. Those were the good ole’ days [...]

Crowdsourcing: Digging Deeper with Aliza Sherman

If the last post got you thinking this crowdsourcing thing could be kind of cool, you’re not alone. A lot of people have gotten interested in crowdsourcing lately, with a myriad of uses- from nonprofits using it for grassroots fundraising, to Paul McCartney using it to get his fans to submit original works of art [...]

Facebook Faux Pas and How To Avoid Them

You know that awkward instance when you see someone with a big piece of salad in their teeth from lunch? Or the person who’s fly is down? You never want to be that person. These awkward instances occur in the Facebook world too. Don’t be caught with your fly down – read this list of [...]

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In today’s technological world we are becoming more and more interconnected as a global family. Technology and increasing globalization are making it easier for people from one foot away to 3,000 or 15,000 miles away to lend a hand and be a part of something greater. After all, there’s a lot of people in the [...]