Tools for social change
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A roundup of social media apps & our own reviews
Begin with this directory of Web 2.0 productivity tools or the Social Actions toolset.
Here are posts our team has written about tools you may find useful (the most recent entries appear at the top). See the Sharing Center for additional resources, and also see our posts on resources and tutorials.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Rewarding open source for social good
- 12-step guide on how to live-tweet an event
- New rules: How to create a Facebook page from scratch
- Techniques to add dazzle to your advocacy video
- 8 nonprofit Twitter superstars
- 7 ways Facebook’s Subscribe button can be a nonprofit game-changer
- Facebook changes will help you change the world
- How to activate Facebook's new subscribe button
- How to make cause marketing video that doesn't suck
- 10 tips for a successful fundraising event
- Mobile: The next frontier of nonprofit fundraising
- Rally: Raise money for your favorite cause
- HelpAttack!: Unleash the charitable power of social media
- GoodThreads: Custom T-shirts as a fundraising tool
- Social fundraising tools: Our top 5 picks
- Helping nonprofits master the art of grant writing
- How to create a successful multi-author blog
- 9 steps to getting started with Google Plus
- Tricks to ramp up your nonprofit's Facebook Page
- Top 10 productivity apps for college students
- Create a topic calendar for your nonprofit's Facebook Page
- Storytelling 2.0: Why nonprofits need to tell stories
- 4 tools to help build your social community
- How to collect email subscribers on your Facebook Page
- FrontlineSMS launches User Guide on Data Integrity
- Nonprofits: Are your Facebook fans engaged?
- 16 tips for making video interviews come alive
- 5 WordPress plug-ins to turbo-charge your blog
- How to find amazing, powerful stories for your nonprofit video
- Post Planner: A branded publishing app for Facebook
- How to get more Facebook fans with Sponsored Story ads
- Tips for making your Web content personal
- 6 great productivity tools for social media pros
- How GLIDE fights for social justice
- How to create a more social website
- How Google’s +1 button will change search
- How DoSomething engages young people
- 12 tips for writing more blog posts each week
- Nonprofit strategies for getting more out of LinkedIn
- Highlights of LinkedIn's new program for nonprofits
- How Google Plus can help nonprofits connect with supporters
- 10 social tools to put to work for your cause
- How to get started with Google Plus and Circles
- How to wade into the social media stream
- First impressions of Google+: Security and control
- How CrowdFlower powers crowdsourced labor
- How nonprofits can use crowdsourcing to work smarter and save money
- Unleash your nonprofit's fundraising potential
- 6 tips for creating effective custom Facebook tabs
- Lessons learned from the To Mama With Love campaign
- Find the influencers who matter most to you
- 6 ideas to help nonprofits get started on Foursquare
- Expert Web design on the cheap
- How to get the most from Facebook Like buttons
- 7 tips & a grid for social media measurement
- 10 top collaboration tools for your organization
- How your nonprofit can make the most of Facebook groups
- How to make your tweets last longer with Twylah
- Hope Institute shows how nonprofits can get strategic
- 7 tips to set your live presentations on fire
- Build a WordPress site for your nonprofit in 9 steps
- How to use your email signature to market your brand
- 29 tips to improve your nonprofit site’s landing pages
- How to understand Daily Active Users in Facebook Insights
- 6 ways YouTube is helping out nonprofits
- Use live events to inspire volunteers & supporters
- 8 great examples of nonprofit storytelling
- 16 ways to get more comments on your Facebook Page
- 13 tutorials to bring your Facebook presence to the next level
- Ideavibes: A new way to do crowdsourcing & crowdfunding campaigns
- 10 media relations tips for your nonprofit
- Google integrates its services for nonprofits
- A story-driven Web platform for communities
- HootSuite adds social analytics & custom reports
- How to help Japan's quake survivors
- How to customize your Feedburner emails
- How to improve your nonprofit's ranking on Google
- 4 resources to create custom Facebook tabs with iFrames
- Shoot video for your nonprofit with a digital camera
- Cross-posting tools: Be efficient — but be smart
- Highlights of Facebook’s major upgrade to Pages
- 15 ways to enhance your Facebook influence
- How nonprofits can take charge of Facebook’s news feeds
- Why you want to create a Facebook Page, not a Profile, for your nonprofit
- 10 ways nonprofits can get more out of Facebook
- Using Twitter & LinkedIn to promote your event
- Creating a Facebook Page? Nonprofits face new choices
- How to get automatic updates on your Facebook Page
- Philanthroper: The Groupon of crowdsourced social giving
- Understanding the return on fundraising events
- Connect with San Diego's tech, arts, journalism & nonprofit communities
- Want to take action on a cause? The road ahead just got easier
- Virtual meeting smackdown! 15 top Web conferencing services compared
- How to build & manage a monitoring dashboard























































