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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please be open to the idea that you may need social media training. The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. We’re now ten years into the Social Web. blogs, social networks, peer-to-peer fundraising).

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Write social media and mobile technology policies. Purchase a digital camera. Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Add social networking icons. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your social networking communities. 1) Website.

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Facebook plans first smartwatch for next summer with two cameras, heart rate monitor

The Verge

The device will feature a display with two cameras that can be detached from the wrist for taking pictures and videos that can be shared across Facebook’s suite of apps, including Instagram, The Verge has learned. Smartwatches with cameras on them have so far failed to catch on, and Apple has cornered the high end of the market already.

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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s very common for nonprofits to assume that volunteers and interns can effectively manage their mobile and social media presence simply because they are young and came of age during the rise of social networking. Being behind the camera takes confidence and a familiarity with digital equipment. Multitasking.

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HOW TO: Create Videos for Your Nonprofit Without a Video Camera, a Budget of $0, and Little-to-No Tech Skills

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Within a few minutes and a couple of clicks, your nonprofit could have a new promotional video that you can use on your Web site, your Blog, in your e-mail newsletters, and on social networking sites.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Organic Social Media to Increase Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Show real humans talking to the camera through videos and storytelling. 100s of the world’s top nonprofits trust GoodUnited to help grow their mission on social networks – including Susan G. Create content that resembles the feeling of someone making eye contact with you in a crowded room. Say their name.

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22 Ways Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes for Fundraising and Awareness Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number. If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. So, what are they?

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