Social Media Resources
General Social Media Resources
1. A Primer on Social Media: The basics on social media.
2. Social Media Glossary: Useful descriptions of common terms found in the world of social media.
3. Identify Your Audience Tool: An interactive step-by-step tool to determine if and where your audiences live online.
4. Social Media Decision Guide: Idealware's step-by-step approach to determine which tools are right for your nonprofit.
5. We Are Media: Social Media for nonprofits for beginners – includes planning guide, preparation planning, and tool box.
6. 26 presentations on social media for nonprofits, including how to’s on Facebook, Twitter, podcasting, blogging, etc.
Tools you can use
1. Social Source Commons: Browse and identify recommended tech and social media tools for use by nonprofits.
2. We Are Media toolbox: Tutorials and other information on using various social media platforms and tools
3. 2011 Field Guide to Nonprofit Software: Covers productivity, online fundraising, content management, and social media tools. ($19.95)
4. Answr: Aggregates knowledge and best practices in nonprofit technology. Includes Q&A forum to get specific information you may need.
Informational Blogs
1. Beth’s Blog: Known as the “guru” of nonprofit technology and social media, Beth Kanter provides practical and cutting edge information on a wide range of topics. If you want to stay up to date on trends and tools this is the place to go!
2. Frogloop: Online Fundraising, Advocacy & Social Media from Care2.
3. SocialBrite: “Social Tools for Social Change.” A good way to keep up on social media trends and tools.
4. Wild Apricot: Covers Web technologies and challenges faced by volunteer and small-staff organizations
5. Jon Hayden: Social media marketing strategies and tools
Video Resources*
Nonprofit Technology Organizations
1. NTEN: The leading national organization devoted to nonprofit technology. The provide great resources such as Webinars, seminars, and a listserve for assistance and recommendations by leading experts.
2. IdealWare: Reviews, webinars, reports on software and social media tools for nonprofits.
3. Aspiration Tech: Helps nonprofits identify appropriate technology tools. Host for Social Source Commons and Answr listed above.
4. TechSoup: “The technology place for nonprofits” offers a learning center for identifying and understanding social media and tech tools.
Books
1. The Networked Nonprofit, Beth Kanter & Alison Fine
2. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business, by Ann Handley
3. Social by Social, A practical guide to using technology to deliver social impact (free download available).
4. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, By Clay Shirkey
5. Groundswell, By Charlene Li
Online Fundraising
Mobile Phone Fundraising & Outreach
Articles & Reports
Other
1. A Primer on Social Media: The basics on social media.
2. Social Media Glossary: Useful descriptions of common terms found in the world of social media.
3. Identify Your Audience Tool: An interactive step-by-step tool to determine if and where your audiences live online.
4. Social Media Decision Guide: Idealware's step-by-step approach to determine which tools are right for your nonprofit.
5. We Are Media: Social Media for nonprofits for beginners – includes planning guide, preparation planning, and tool box.
6. 26 presentations on social media for nonprofits, including how to’s on Facebook, Twitter, podcasting, blogging, etc.
Tools you can use
1. Social Source Commons: Browse and identify recommended tech and social media tools for use by nonprofits.
2. We Are Media toolbox: Tutorials and other information on using various social media platforms and tools
3. 2011 Field Guide to Nonprofit Software: Covers productivity, online fundraising, content management, and social media tools. ($19.95)
4. Answr: Aggregates knowledge and best practices in nonprofit technology. Includes Q&A forum to get specific information you may need.
Informational Blogs
1. Beth’s Blog: Known as the “guru” of nonprofit technology and social media, Beth Kanter provides practical and cutting edge information on a wide range of topics. If you want to stay up to date on trends and tools this is the place to go!
2. Frogloop: Online Fundraising, Advocacy & Social Media from Care2.
3. SocialBrite: “Social Tools for Social Change.” A good way to keep up on social media trends and tools.
4. Wild Apricot: Covers Web technologies and challenges faced by volunteer and small-staff organizations
5. Jon Hayden: Social media marketing strategies and tools
Video Resources*
- "Social Media in Plain English": Simple explanation of Web 2.0 in minutes
- "Social Media Revolution": 4 minutes of amazing statistics disproving the notion that social media is a fad
- "Did You Know 3.0": 5 minute overview of the rapid pace of technology developments through statistics
- "Us Now": Brilliant 1 hour documentary on the power of technology-driven collaboration to change government and other institutions.
Nonprofit Technology Organizations
1. NTEN: The leading national organization devoted to nonprofit technology. The provide great resources such as Webinars, seminars, and a listserve for assistance and recommendations by leading experts.
2. IdealWare: Reviews, webinars, reports on software and social media tools for nonprofits.
3. Aspiration Tech: Helps nonprofits identify appropriate technology tools. Host for Social Source Commons and Answr listed above.
4. TechSoup: “The technology place for nonprofits” offers a learning center for identifying and understanding social media and tech tools.
Books
1. The Networked Nonprofit, Beth Kanter & Alison Fine
2. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business, by Ann Handley
3. Social by Social, A practical guide to using technology to deliver social impact (free download available).
4. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, By Clay Shirkey
5. Groundswell, By Charlene Li
Online Fundraising
- The Online Fundraisers Checklist: A series of simple checklists to enhance your Website donation efforts and email campaigns.
- A Few Good Online Fundraising Tools: Comprehensive overview of considerations and various tools for fundraising.
- Online Fundraising 101. Over 101 resources for online fundraising
- Social Network Fundraising: Presentation on using Social Networks for Fundraising and use of new media for nonprofit marketing.
- How to Raise A Lot More Money Now: 50 great Ideas from 11 top experts Both online and other great ideas for fundraising from top fundraisers
- What’s the Return On Investment (ROI) of Online Voting and Fundraising Contests? Beth
Mobile Phone Fundraising & Outreach
- Text donations overview diagram: A one page infographic describing the process and costs of launching a text message fundraising campaign
- Mobile phone text providers & resources to assist you in understanding and launching text based fundraising: http://www.MobileCommons.com http://www.mgivefoundation.org/, http://www.mobileaccord.com
- Location-based Marketing: Using Foursquare & other location based tools for marketing and fundraising.
Articles & Reports
- The 2011 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits: Review of various software tools and practices
- Reaching Out To a Wide Audience: A Twitter Case Study: How to get started with and use Twitter
- Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: The Results of a Survey: What tools and practices nonprofits are using.
- Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? An analysis of the pros and cons of using Facebook.
Other
- Search Engine Optimization for Nonprofits: A guide to help your nonprofit to improve its search visibility on the Web.
- What kind of a technology user are you? Take a short test to find out if you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced user of technology.
- Social Citizen Test: A test to see if you are truly a "Social Citizen" in the area of technology.
- Billing & Time Tracking Service: Harvest has a mobile app, widget and more.
- Baaaah-d Marketing, Graphic Design & Marketing by my personal favorite person, Debbie Lamb!
