Resources

A roundup of resources about social media and citizen media
Begin with this directory of Web 2.0 productivity tools or this Directory of journalism resources, a deep collection of helpful pointers for professional & amateur journalists.
Here are posts our team has written about resources you may find useful (the most recent entries appear at the top). See the Sharing Center for additional resources, and also see our tutorials and postings about social tools.
- Evernote: Productivity tool packs a punch
- How to promote your Facebook page with Facebook ads
- How to use social media for students & schools
- 27 ways to increase engagement on your Facebook page
- Growing nonprofits and social movements with NationBuilder
- 6 creative ways to use photos to increase engagement on your Facebook page
- Social media for small budgets
- Measure social media traffic with Google Analytics
- On-demand magazine publishing, simple & cheap
- 6 business reasons for nonprofits to publish a magazine
- How to create fans-only content on your Facebook page
- Curation tools to help you cope with info-overload
- 8 tips on how to write awesome blog posts
- Online advocacy video best practices
- PopVox: How to advocate your cause in Congress
- 10 secrets to video storytelling success
- One way to attract new fans with Facebook Timeline
- GroupMe: Keep in touch with your team members
- How to measure the effectiveness of your Facebook custom tabs
- What story should you tell in Facebook Timeline?
- Tips on maximizing the new Timeline for your organization
- How to shape your nonprofit’s message in Timeline
- 7 tips & cheat sheets to help you implement the new Timeline
- 5 steps to set up your measurement program
- How to clean up your Facebook Timeline
- Causes reinvents itself as a campaign center
- 5 advocacy lessons from the Kony 2012 video
- Make Facebook Timeline about your community
- Two mobile resources in words and pictures
- 11 ways Facebook Timeline changes your content strategy
- The difference between posting as a brand and posting as a person on Facebook
- Facebook Welcome Pages are dead — say hello to Timeline
- How to set up a metrics program
- 7 ways to drive Facebook visitors to your site
- What to pin, and what not to pin, on Pinterest
- To create a metrics program, first identify your goals
- 6 ways to tell your stories with data
- PostPlanner: Publishing to Facebook made easy
- 6 iPhone accessories to jazz up your mobile photos
- What Facebook Timeline apps are really all about
- 5 best practices for email fundraising and marketing
- Use Facebook to increase engagement on your site
- How Salsa Labs enables positive social action
- 15 top iPhone apps for work, play & creativity
- 12 ways to use Pinterest for your nonprofit
- Facebook Timeline apps: A new way to engage
- 5 tips to help you create visually stunning websites
- First steps in measuring impact for your nonprofit
- How to use Facebook as an administrator vs. as a person
- How NGOs can use social media to combat poverty
- How to create Facebook Timeline covers for your nonprofit's supporters to use
- How to use Google Insights for your nonprofit or business
- Free-to-use mobile and technology images
- How charity: water changes lives through multimedia
- Should nonprofits use video for their annual reports?
- How to set up a text-to-donate program for your nonprofit
- How to get started with live streaming technology
- What communication channels are you using?
- 17 ways to revive your organization's Facebook Page
- Calendar of 2012 nonprofit & social change conferences
- 45 hashtags for social change
- How Google+ Ripples can move supporters to action
- YouTube's viral stars: The new nonprofit ambassadors
- OnSwipe: Make your site 'swipeable' on the iPad!
- 14 surefire ways to engage Facebook users
- Best Web analytics tools for nonprofits
- 5 tips on writing knockout social media content
- Which Facebook Insights metrics matter to your nonprofit?
- How to edit your nonprofit video inside YouTube
- 4 awesome ways to create content with Google Plus
- The difference between Google Plus Pages & Profiles
- How to effectively use calls to action in nonprofit videos
- Tips for your nonprofit to succeed with Google Plus business pages
- How to create an ebook for your nonprofit
- Free tools to help geo-target your socialsphere
- First impressions of Google+ Pages for nonprofits
- How to use microsites to better tell your nonprofit's story
- How nonprofits should be using data
- How to create a Google Plus business page
- How to use LinkedIn pages for your nonprofit
- What Facebook's hybrid News Feed means for engagement
- Facebook's page for nonprofits offers helpful resources
- How to create a custom Welcome Page on Facebook
- Get deep into engagement with the new Facebook Insights
- Study: How nonprofits benefit from using social media
- 5 essential Facebook applications for nonprofits
- How to use Twitter to monitor your brand
- 6 reasons to use Flickr for your next media campaign
- How to use the new Facebook Insights
- 10 great get-down-to-business Twitter apps for nonprofits
- Why Long Tail keywords matter to your nonprofit
- 12 ways Facebook users can 'like' your nonprofit Facebook Page
- Best Twitter dashboards for nonprofits
- Inside the upgrades to Facebook & Delicious
- 14 ways to improve your email open rate
- Video tutorial: How to use the new Facebook Insights
- 7 top tools to measure performance & influence on Twitter
- 12 ways to develop a loyal community for your blog
- How nonprofits should use infographics
- 24 best practices for nonprofits using Twitter























































