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11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The upper right-hand corner is the most valuable section of your website—use it to plug your e-newsletter and group text messaging campaigns, donate now functionality, and social networking communities. Include Social Media Icons or Graphics. Use Third-Party Widgets Only if They Add Value. Overall, avoid clutter.

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11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In addition to information on subscribing by keyword and short code, you should also embed an online form or widget (provided by your vendor) on the page that easily allows people to type in their mobile number to subscribe instantaneously. Create a “Text-to-Subscribe” Graphic for Social Networking Sites. Use Bit.ly

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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Guest Post by Allyson Kapin: Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If your nonprofit is not taking advantage of free tools like Add This , a widget that encourages users to share your organizations articles or webpages on the most popular social networks or branded toolbars like FreeCause , then your nonprofit is missing out on some big marketing opportunities. Easy to Moderate* 9.

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APIs for Social Media Integration and More: A Gentle Introduction for Nonprofits

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While Facebook has a full set of APIs you can code against, you can also take advantage of their user-friendly widgets and have the additional benefit of being hosted on the Facebook domain. Your Facebook friends and people in your social graph are enhancing the user experience of interacting with the application.

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10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They can opt-in by sending a Keyword (NONPROFITORGS) to a Short Code (41411) , or through a subscribe page/widget on a nonprofit’s website. The ASPCA is running three different text alert campaigns: 1) Advocacy Alerts 2) Cate Care Tips 3) Dog Care Tips. Definitely a best practice! That’s a great best practice.

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Does their profile include a donation widget or a link to click for donations?