Twitter has become a great tool for businesses. More and more we hear of companies hiring Social Media Managers to implement and control their social media efforts, especially Twitter efforts. But what about Nonprofits? Nonprofits are typically not in a position to create new jobs for online efforts. How can a nonprofit utilize Twitter efficiently?
Instead of drafting yet another blog post giving our thoughts on Twitter for nonprofits, we thought it’d be great to weed through the articles that already exist and highlight those we think are most useful. Below you will find the links to the sites and a summary of the information they offer. Some are older and some are new, but all contain great information. And of course, we’ll still include some tips of our own!
Twitter for Nonprofits – Fastspot
Our friends at Fastspot provide a detailed rundown of how to get started with and manage a Twitter account. Topics include account set-up, marketing and promotion, tools and hashtags, among others. This article serves as a great starting point for all nonprofits.
Twitter for Fundraising - FundrasingCoach.com
Blogger Marc Pittman discusses the importance of building relationships on Twitter first and then covers how Twitter can help increase fundraising efforts for a charity or nonprofit once those connections are established.
10 Twitter Tips for Nonprofit Organizations - Change.org
This article is a basic overview of getting started on Twitter but with a nonprofit spin. The tips are familiar and could benefit any Twitter user, but Change.org explains how the Twitter tips apply to a non-profit organization.
5 Fun and Fabulous Tools for Nonprofit Organizations and Activists - Change.org
Change.org has provided a list of tools that are uniquely beneficial to a nonprofit or charity. The list tools like Twibbon which allows followers to add a support ribbon to their profile picture, and TipJoy, a Twitter donation tool.
Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals - PR 2.0
This is an extensive list of Twitter tools. While this list may not be specific to nonprofits, it includes many different tools that would be useful for a nonprofit and gives a detailed summary of each one.
Nonprofits – Twitterpacks
TwitterPacks is a free workspace site with various categories of Twitter users. While there are many different Twitter directory sites, this directory is updated regularly and offers a brief description of each organization listed.
26 Charities and Nonprofits on Twitter - Mashable
Mashable has a list of some well known charities and nonprofits that are currently active on Twitter. This article provides some great examples of ways nonprofits can benefit from using Twitter for their organization.
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And here are a few tools we think would be beneficial to a nonprofit that weren’t covered above!
Tweetfunnel
Tweetfunnel is a free Twitter tool that allows multiple users to tweet from the same account. Users have individual logins and can post tweets to be reviewed by an administrator for posting. Tweetfunnel also works with bit.ly, the popular link shortening service.
TinyPetition
TinyPetition is a simple online petition tool that assigns a unique TinyPetition URL, Twitter hashtag and shortened URL to each petition created.
@nonprofitorgs
@nonprofitorgs is a Twitter portal for all nonprofits on Twitter. Our recommendation for any nonprofit is to make sure you follow them and get them to follow you back! They only follow nonprofits so that list acts as another directory source.
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Got any great ideas for Nonprofits using Twitter we missed? Feel free to let us know in the comments!
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Great post guys. Very helpful list of resources. I was wondering if you guys could write a post about international PPC? Specifically I would love to have a cheat sheet outlining headline, desc. 1, desc. 2, of major search engines in Mexico, India, Israel, and Brazil.
Looking forward to more great posts.
Good tips.
I totally agree, by the way, twitter really is a grate buisness tool.