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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

EveryAction

Why LGBTQ+ advocacy is always-on from here on It’s more important than ever for LGBTQ+ organizations to effectively advocate on behalf of LGBTQ+ people. While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, they embraced Twitter because journalists were active on Twitter and it was an efficient way to reach them. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Over time, using Twitter has become more an organizational cultural norm. Many tweets lead to press calls.”.

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Can Small Nonprofits Reap Success With Social Media? (Giving away a copy of Twitter for Dummies)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After last week's social media workshop , a gentleman from a local nonprofit came up to me and said, "Well this social media stuff is all fine and good for large national advocacy organizations, but it is not very relevant for small or regional organizations with really tight resources.". Tags: twitter.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now more than ever it’s crucial that your NGO knows the basics of a successful online fundraising campaign and has knowledge of emerging online fundraising trends in order to prepare for the future. Others options: crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, event registration and ticketing, database integration, advocacy, and online stores.

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Ask an Expert: Online Engagement Tool Trends + Advice

EveryAction

Social media, texting, apps and blogs have all been added to the mix. We wanted to take the jargon and sales-speak out of the mix and serve up an easy to understand, knowledgeable look at a curated array of the systems in the market. What pieces of functionality (advocacy, email, events, etc.) MW: This is a great question!

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. ."

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