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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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WhatsApp’s contact-adding QR codes and animated stickers officially announced

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We’ve already heard about a few of them, like QR codes , that can be used to quickly add new contacts or animated stickers , thanks to their appearance in beta versions of WhatsApp. The new features include Animated Stickers, QR codes that can be used to add new contacts, and a dark mode for the service’s desktop client.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone.

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Venmo drops the global social feed that could make your payments visible to strangers

The Verge

The updated Venmo app without the global social feed. Venmo announced it's removing its global social feed on Tuesday, the payment app’s notorious feature that allows strangers to potentially view payments you make and receive on Venmo ( via Bloomberg ). Image: Venmo. Image: Venmo.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Instagram for Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It will also grant you access to more advanced analytics and improved ad campaign management, as well as enable you to add contact information to your page. Instagram doesn’t let you add links to post captions — meaning that users who click through will always go through the contact info on your page or a link in your bio.

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The Not-So-Secret Way to Power Your Nonprofit’s Future Growth

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If you want to effectively engage supporters, you have to be able to contact them directly. It may even be how your nonprofit has been building its contact list already. Conclusion Event registration and the data collected feeds your nonprofit’s growth. To do that, you need names and email addresses, at the bare minimum.

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Three Recent Facebook Upgrades That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As far as I can guess, on average only about 6-9% of my fans now get my status updates posted to their News Feed which is about half the 16% that Facebook announced in March. The last week of September I noticed that the Reach on that status updates that I posted on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page had dropped significantly.

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