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How Pinterest Can Help Your Animal Nonprofit

January 29th, 2012

The latest social networking trend? Pinterest.

This is one social network all animal rescue, animal welfare, and animal rights non-profits need to start using! It’s a visual and interactive bulletin board that provides a virtual way to share images that relate to your nonprofits mission – and a wonderful way to network, spread the word, and drive traffic to your website!

Many animal-focused organizations are already harnessing the power of interest:

Some great ways to use Pinterest:

  • Post of a “Wish List” board – this can contain supplies that your nonprofit is currently is need of
  • Animals for Adoption – Post animal photos from your Petfinder, Petango or other adoption listings online
  • Follow other animal focused non-profits start growing the community!
  • Start a “Success” board – this can contain images of adopted animals, successful campaigns, or mission
  • Help inspire others – what inspires you or your nonprofit? What images and things might inspire people to support your cause?
  • Cute photos! Who doesn’t love funny, lighthearted, and sweet photos of animals?

Is your  animal focused non-profit on Pinterest? Post the link below in the comments!

Google for Non-Profits

November 21st, 2011

Google for NonprofitsFollowing closely behind it’s launch of Google+ by invitation-only – Google announced Google for Non-Profits. The new branch of services being offered by Google are aimed at serving Non-Profit organizations and providing discounted services, and access to exclusive resources. The services are wide – and my first impression is that they are going to be quite useful – especially for small non-profits working with very small budgets.

Google Grants will provide Adword campaigns for free to select organizations.

YouTube’s Nonprofit program will give your organization a designated “nonprofit” channel that will allow for a call-to-action overlay on videos – that can prompt for donations through Google Checkout.

Google Apps for Nonprofit will allow for eligible organizations to use Google Apps (which includes email, business documents, company-wide calendars, and more) either for free, or for a significant discount – depending on the size of your organization.

Their Raise Awareness initiative offers many tools for nonprofits to spread awareness on their cause, and share data through Google Maps, Google Earth Outreach, and more.

There’s an excellent article and interview here from USA Today.

Questions on how we can help put these services to work for your non-profit? Shoot us an email!

Organic Themes presents ‘Non-Profit Theme’

November 18th, 2011

Organic Themes, a premium wordpress theme provider, offers a beautifully-designed theme built specifically with Non-Profits in mind. The theme contains a featured content slider capable of displaying images or video, several widgetized areas, and a tabbed content section on the home page.

Organic Themes Non-Profit Theme

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How to Claim a Company Page for your Non-Profit on LinkedIn

November 4th, 2010

LinkedIn for your non-profitOdds are your business has a “Company Page” on LinkedIn. If any of your past employees, interns, or hired consultants/contractors have a personal profile on LinkedIn and they have added their position at your company to their work “Experience”, then your business does indeed have a Company Page on LinkedIn. Small businesses (and nonprofits and universities) need to understand that Company Pages are automatically created by LinkedIn members when they fill out the Experience section of their personal profiles. Read the rest of this entry »

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October 13th, 2010

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