Tools for social change

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.

• 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
• 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