Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA has posted a nearly 650-word story of Rani on their blog with a big headline, full-size photos, large text, and bold quotes. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera. This eye-catching photo invited viewers to click to take a closer look.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Upload powerful photos and videos. Like mentions and replies.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

For most men, growing a mustache generates a lot of comments, conversation, and laughter – which is the point! Early on, it became clear that photos and videos could make or break a Movember campaign. When I posted an updated pic on Facebook, I received a lot of likes and comments, but also a donation or two.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Use a Professional Photo for Your Profile Photo. It’s best to use a profile photo on LinkedIn that speaks to your professional career, not your personal life (that is, not photos that were taken on vacation, with the family, in costume, and so on). Customize Your Headline. Resist the urge and do not automate!

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

If you know me you know I like to use Hootsuite to manage my social media feeds. HootFeed is a free tool built for sharing twitter feeds with an audience. You can display a feed in lobby of your office or in meetings at your office. Let us know in the comments section. Photo from Hootsuite. How can you harness it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 18, 2024

You can upload up to 10 photos to a thread. You can repost, like, and comment on threads. 5) Be generous with likes and comments. During the early adoption phase of a new social media platform, liking and commenting helps your nonprofit get more followers. Upload powerful photos and videos.

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The Verge

MAY 15, 2021

Twitter didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment from The Verge on Saturday, but the company doesn’t usually confirm or otherwise comment on Wong’s typically accurate discoveries of new features before they launch. In its first-quarter earnings report late last month, Twitter had a profit of $68 million on revenue of $1.04

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). Doing Good.

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. A “Like” on a Facebook status is the equivalent of someone passively scrolling through a Facebook feed and giving you thumbs up on a post that caught their attention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. Even the most challenging issues have stories of success.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. It’s good for branding your nonprofit and protecting the copyright of your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. You’ll want to grab the RSS feed for each of the searches you performed before you move on to the next step in the process(setting up an iGoogle Listening Dashboard). Please start asking in the comments below. Pretty simple eh?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

When you post a message, upload a photo or video, or share, you are given the option to select which of your “circles&# are able to view it. You are also given the option to disable comments on something and/or disable the option for others to share/reshare what you post. Circles are how you organize your contacts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

” Beyond that, only add information and photos that you’re comfortable sharing with others: Again, to re-iterate Google Profiles are public and the information you add to your Google Profile can be viewed by others when you are participating in various Google Products. Upload at least five photos to your Google+ Profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2008

Photo from Ian Kennedy. " An activity stream is a feed of recent activities by your blog friends on various social networks - blog posts, new photos, bookmarks on Delicious, Facebook updates, Twitter updates, etc. Ian spoke on a panel called Social Networks and the Need for Feeds at Graphing Social Patterns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

Launched in March 2020, AlgorithmWatch provided a browser plug-in that would allow users to collect data from their Instagram feeds, providing insight into how the platform prioritizes pictures and videos. In other words, users of the plug-in where only accessing their own feed, and sharing it with us for research purposes.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Personal: In an age of Facebook, many of our close friends and family are using it – and we’re sharing family photos, what we do in our leisure time, hobbies, our location, and all sorts of personal information. There is a trade off is that your friends my not want to comment if they notice people they don’t know.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). " Check it out!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Feeding America is an excellent example of a website with well-structured and simple navigation. First, today’s social sharing apps allow you to customize the title, blurb, and photo that will be generated when posted on social media. Embrace simplicity in navigation. 9) Prioritize website security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Photo by Lauren Clitheroe. A company called The SkinGlo emailed them with a tempting deal : it was looking for content to fill its Instagram feed, and its team had chosen them to help. Its Instagram page has over 12K followers, and at one point, it was filled with tons of positive comments on its posts. itsvagabondbeauty).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Content Analysis of Comments on post and shares. 3. Variety of Content Adds Spice To Your Page: Want to claim a space in your fans’ News Feeds? Vary the content you post. In the comments, someone shared it with their network calling it a “Fun Friday Geeky Share.” I only look at these: Reach.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Scroll down until you find “Media and Contacts,” then tap “Videos and Photos.”. You can then switch off the autoplaying of videos on your feed. Select the “Feed settings” tab at the top of the page, and toggle off the “Autoplay media” switch. Using the Android app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. What if you and your colleagues could annotiate these photos with your own descrptions and observations? Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

You can see photos of some of the damage as they come in on PicFog. If you know of other ways to help, please post ideas in the comments. According to their Twitter feed, Oxfam America is already on the ground in Haiti and is asking for donations. A BlogHer commenter also posted a link to an extensive list on the What Gives!?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. To begin, provide your staff, board members, and volunteers guidelines for maximizing their LinkedIn Profiles , such as: Complete their profile and upload a professional photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

Armed with his advice and resources which includes a simple graphic template, some good photos, a good tagline, and a tool like photoshop, your organization can create a respectable DYI cover image in less than an hour. After reading his post, I thought it was so useful, I invited him to share it as a guest post. Cover Photo Template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Photo by Stuck in Customs. It is also important to understand that content curation is just about information, it is about feeding and tuning your network. Storyfy — Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as Tweets, photos and videos. What is Content Curation? and plug in relevant keywords and date parameters.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

The app encourages audience participation more than Clubhouse, in that users can react to conversations without being onstage, and they can type comments or questions. Looking at the desktop view, users’ profiles include a photo, bio, and follower / following count. A view of a live Fireside chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Then they can comment, share and/or like your wall posts which then shares it with all their friends – now that’s viral. Comment on their wall posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Conversations will naturally spring up in the comments section of your document.

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