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The Importance of Branding Your Nonprofit on Social Networks Through Graphic Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits were the early adopters of social networks. The were active on Myspace, YouTube, and creating Facebook Groups long before most of the companies that are often praised for being the pioneers of social media. One of the reasons was that social networks were free to join and lacked monthly fees.

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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Social networking communities are migrant communities.

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HOW TO: Merge Your Nonprofit’s YouTube Channel and Google+ Page

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Google+ can now lay claim to 359 million active monthly users and the title of being the world’s second largest social network. If your nonprofit uses Gmail, Search, YouTube, Maps, etc., Currently in Beta, YouTube just announced the ability to merge your YouTube channel with your nonprofit’s Google+ page.

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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? 3) LinkedIn.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

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Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? YouTube is the second most used search engine in the world. With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right?

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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. 3) Your YouTube Channel is absent of customization and branding. 5) You are ignoring Google+.

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Five Nonprofit Technology Trends to Watch in 2014

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Integration of Digital Payments Into Social Networks. That said, both Facebook and Twitter are working on launching their own digital payment systems which could radically transform online fundraising via social networks. It’s a guessing game at this point who the social network giants will partner with.

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