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Which Company is the Most Socially Responsible and Generous to Nonprofits: Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? LinkedIn? MySpace? Flickr? Google?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits and their adoption of social media has created an interesting, albeit interdependent relationship with large companies like Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. I was very glad to see that every company listed below is doing some good for nonprofits and social causes.What do you think?

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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

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. Add a website, blog, and social networking pitch to your “Thank You for Subscribing” e-mail.

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The social network commitment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. LinkedIN : The professional, serious, network.

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11 Tips for Making Nonprofit Press Releases Social and Shareable

Nonprofit Tech for Good

People on social networks ignore links that do not pull up thumbnails and are heavily text-based. 4) Add a link to your Flickr account where journalists can download high resolution images related to the press release. Make it easy for them and compile a slideshow on Flickr in advance of the press release. Social Media'

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI.

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Five Ways to Integrate Social Media Into Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To begin, here are five ways to integrate social media into your nonprofit’s website: 1) Add social networking icons to your homepage. Increasingly supporters expect to find social networking icons on your nonprofit’s homepage. 3) Add Flickr SlideShows or YouTube videos to content pages.