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Whether you plan to use social media for better PR outreach, marketing, or just listening to what customers have to say, the social media tools you use can play an important role in your business. What’s equally important is who uses those tools in your company’s name. Should you handle social media profiles yourself, or should you turn to a professional who can help you develop a solid social media strategy? [click to continue…]

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Let me preface this list by saying that I generally dislike “best” lists. I don’t care for people attempting to rank the best of the best of anything online. It’s not just based on a collection of faulty metrics or completely subjective (which people often don’t admit), but it’s ignorant at best. After all, no one is familiar with everything available, so how can they attempt to identify the best?

It usually turns into this back-patting, ass-kissing kind of thing. “So-and-so said something nice about me so I obviously think they’re one of the best or most influential people out there,” or “So-and-so is a more well-known blogger than me, so I should include them so maybe they’ll notice me.” Man, that kind of thing makes me cringe. [click to continue…]

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Before I launched my online PR firm back in 2004, I worked in the nonprofit sector for a while. I was responsible for things like soliciting donations, helping to plan fundraising events, and hiring and supervising staff who took care of volunteer recruitment. At that time, social media didn’t really play any role in what we did. There was a lot of phone work involved instead.

In many cases, that’s very different today. Just a few short years later and social media is playing a significant role in bringing attention to causes, soliciting donations and more in the nonprofit world.

How are nonprofit organizations using social media today? Let’s explore that by taking a look at some examples.

Fundraising / Microfunding

One of my favorite examples of using social media in fundraising for nonprofits is a project from colleague Danny Brown — 12for12k.org. The 12for12k Challenge unites bloggers and other social media users globally to help raise awareness and funds to support different causes.


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