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6 Nonprofit Twitter #hashtags to follow

6 Nonprofit Twitter #hashtags to follow

For those of you that are active on Twitter, following hashtags (#) can be a great source of information and an easy way to add your content to the conversation. You have access to a vast community on Twitter of smart, innovative, and engaging individuals looking to share what they know. Take a moment to [...]

How to construct the perfect social media post

How to construct the perfect social media post

Some say there’s an art to the social media post. Great tweets and Facebook posts all share similar characteristics that help separate them from the rest of the pack. As a thought experiment, we decided we’d break down what we felt the best social media posts all had in common. Captivating text  Effective social media [...]

How to schedule your tweets

How to schedule your tweets

For those of us on Twitter, we all know how time consuming orchestrating tweets can potentially be. Though we understand their importance, finding time to tweet throughout the day can be difficult to do. This is why scheduling them in advance might be one way to make engaging your audience on Twitter a little more [...]

Sharing Series Recap: How to Best Share Your Fundraising Page Online

Sharing Series Recap: How to Best Share Your Fundraising Page Online

  Over the course of the week we have been discussing how to best share your fundraising page online. Here is a brief recap of this week’s series. The 5 “Don’t”s of sharing your fundraising page on Twitter  Make sure your Twitter followers have a clear idea of what you are trying to do in [...]

Part 1: The 5 Don’ts of sharing your fundraising page on Twitter

Part 1: The 5 Don’ts of sharing your fundraising page on Twitter

  This week, we’ll be doing a “Sharing your fundraising page” series to go over some best practices around sharing your fundraising pages through social media. We’ll kick things off  today with Twitter and discuss how you can best share your fundraising page online. Be sure to check back throughout the week for more sharing [...]

Start something with Twibbon

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Attention fundraisers using twitter – tweet your fundraising page with a Twibbon for extra impact. Whether you’re raising money online for a cause you care about or  working for a nonprofit organization to build your online fundraising community, Scotland-based company Storm Ideas has something for you!  They recently released an application called Twibbon, which lets [...]

Twitter contest winners

Last week a bunch of fundraisers and non-profit organizations participated in our Twitter contest.  They tweeted their fundraising pages, and we chose four winners at random.  Here they are: Tom (@greenjungle) is raising money for the Florida International Teaching Zoo. You can read about his Earth Day event and see some excellent Flickr photos that [...]

Thanks for following us, we're celebrating with a Twitter contest

Thanks to all you folks out there on Twitter, we’ve just surpassed 1,000 followers. And to celebrate, we’re sponsoring a Twitter contest this week.  You could win a donation to your fundraising page! Here’s how: 1.  If you don’t already have one, sign up for a Twitter account and follow us.  Otherwise, skip to step [...]

Social media for nonprofits

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Not too long ago, we hosted a free webinar on “Using Social Media to Expand your Fundraising Horizons.”  If you missed it, you can view the video here.  And there’s also a lively discussion, with Q&A from the webinar, happening on Facebook. One topic that comes up a lot in the social media discussion is social [...]