Does this sound like you? You dutifully post every day on two or more social media profiles for your organization. You try to follow the 80/20 rule (no more than 20% of all posts directly promoting something for your organization) but sometimes get caught up in posting boring news clippings and event listings. You frequently post inspirational quotes, cute …
Congress Is On Instagram – Why Isn’t Your Nonprofit?
What was once a bastion for teens and the tech-savvy to share photos of their feet at the beach, food porn and tall buildings shot from interesting angles, Instagram has now attracted a new set of users – politicians. According to The Hill’s Twitter Room, Congressmen and women are now jumping on the Instagram bandwagon. Since being acquired by Facebook …
Nonprofits, social media and fundraising: #GivingTuesday is a few of my favorite things
I know you’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To most, these are revered celebrations of online consumerism and the chance to stomp on strangers for the lowest priced television. In response to this, but also as a great idea in and of itself, #GivingTuesday has been embraced by the nonprofit and philanthropic world as an alternative to the …
It’s All About The Images, Baby – Pinterest and Instagram for Nonprofits
I decided today that I want to focus more of my time helping nonprofits understand, embrace and harness the power of images. The idea of visual storytelling is certainly nothing new or ground-breaking. Leaders in the nonprofit and social media field have been writing about it for years. It seems to me an indisputable fact – the nonprofit organizations that …
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