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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: Have you been thinking about how to get people to care about the information you are putting online?l6ifpoir9lyew6ndlt2c6aelusrcx199 As you begin the process to engage people in the offline or online world, you have to figure out how your messaging reaches the people you care about by tapping into what [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: Are you trying to set up a “Tweet This” link in your email newsletter but it keeps looking funny or not including all the text?z9p7w69xm89kuibcs6fbyorox4ylw62l Last year, Matt wrote one of Social Source Common’s most popular blog posts that details Creating “Share This on Facebook/Twitter” Links. The post includes what [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: Social networks were not invented for ease of organizational use. Individual accounts… Attached to personal networks… New Year’s Photos seen by all… Cats and Dogs LIVING TOGETHER. Many a sticky situation has arisen from the organization using tools designed for individuals to try to get actual work done. Then trying [...]

A Template for Calendaring Your Messagingm7lpdyu7mzvwzhqqm1ievgtg2ss4xx39A Template for Calendaring Your Messaging">A Template for Calendaring Your Messaging1vq7kiwzwqv013tpp9oz06gj2sselmfcA Template for Calendaring Your Messaging

(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: One of the best practices often overlooked by many “I’m spinning too many plates on long skinny poles” nonprofits is calendaring out the messaging your organization is going to send ahead of time. Akin to flossing, calendaring your messaging ahead of time is something that organizations think that they should [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: Recently one of the organizations that we work with had their account suspended on Twitter. The situation looked something like this. The organization started tweeting about a video/petition. No biggie, right? Well, they started to tweet at people (putting the @username at the beginning of the tweet). A lot. And [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: We spend a lot of time here at Aspiration and here on the SSC Blog talking about online communications best practices, trying to help nonprofits and social justice organizations find ways to use technology cheaper and more effectively for their missions.8nxott26g28wfwyzjvym5xr5acf1ajm8 As part of that effort, I put together some [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: A couple of days ago, one of the organizations we work with emailed me to ask about what it meant that Facebook was going to “archive” their Group. Apparently Facebook is doing a major push for old groups to upgrade to the new Groups format that they’ve developed while getting [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: This post updated April 27th, 20124bjmbfaz4431w5ifwrzvg843v0eakfkf At Aspiration, we often talk to organizations with questions about whether to set up a Profilebk6vi6zdgql6gyjjtdzzdh9g4e5lar8b, Groupf9n1hjp2kyyb6epzqeb43jy0tm3ia6mf, or Pagezu7a62prkxaezhv8yocptkbvpzci5jku on Facebook for their organization. I wanted to walk through some of the differences between these to help guide your Facebook set up.8i1aabippufommoebsbioato37cplugk Define Your [...]

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(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: Recently, being a geek about Newsletter templates and HTML, I found myself voluntarily clicking on a link to vote for the best of a user-generated collection of email templates at Vertical Response. Excitement to participate soon disolved to other-worldly rage when I realized that the only way to vote was [...]

SSC Facebook: Marcia Marcia Marcia, etc.">SSC Facebook: Marcia Marcia Marcia, etc.

(English → Dansk) View originalTranslators: With all of this talk about channels, focuses (foci) and conversation, the elephant in the room is the Social Source Commons Facebook page. Kind of the Jan Brady compared to the Marcia that is the Aspiration Facebook page, our SSC Facebook page just doesn’t get much play. While the Aspiration [...]

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