Canva, the tool that makes graphic design for content available to all NGOs, offers a recent version in Spanish to make it even easier to work and avoid confusion that the portal can produce in English.
A priori it would be positive if the social network wants to return to its origins and to be a tool to connect people; the problem is that Facebook considers NGOs as businesses, and therefore, their communications have less and less space.
Instagram is the second most popular social network in Spain, after Facebook. With 600 million users, it is the most successful social media website among young people and teenagers.
These data have been published by the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report, in which more than 4,908 NGOs from 153 countries were surveyed.
Measuring your NGO's social media data for later analysis will help your organisation achieve its goals.
Digital communication is becoming increasingly visual. Emoticons help to create a link between the message and its audience and, in many cases, increase the interaction with your posts.
This branch of human relations studies how the digital world influences the daily lives of people, and also of social organisations.
From now on, the social network will not deduct characters when you mention someone, share a poll or upload an image.
The unbridled frenzy for the augmented reality game from Niantic has also opened up a new world of opportunities for non-profit organisations.
Enrique San Juan, a strategic consultant, is here to give us some key tips on how non-profit organisations can really get the most out of their social media accounts.
iWith.org is joining the 4,500 nonprofit organisations already using Canva to achieve their goals and reach out to their audiences through creative content.
The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report are statistics that show how are non-governmental organizations using the latest technology, particularly the Internet, to connect with their target groups and donors. Read about a rapidly developing part of the Third Sector.
This platform allows creating sponsorship spaces, where it is possible to invite friends, partners or volunteers to participate. The idea is to initiate crowdfunding campaigns for any occasion.
Before images and videos can be shared on social media, they have to be converted.
Muevala is a social network that is devoted to help the currency of goods through the whole world and for a low-cost.
You may think that the process of informing your audience via another social media tool (when you already do this through some other services) is a waste of time and Mission Impossible in one, but the reality looks much more simple, especially when the tool you are using is Google+.
Youvote.info is a virtual platform where citizens can express their opinions, ask questions and vote social campaigns.
LinkedIn is an online social network for business professionals. It's different than other social networking sites, because it is
designed for professional networking - connecting with potential partners or finding a job - rather than simply making friends, sharing photos or music.
A
free and easy way to promote your NGO is through
Facebook. With over 500 million active users, it is necessary that
NGOs utilize the social network
to promote their goals and activities. However, on Facebook are three options - a
Profile, a
Fan Page and a
Group - and it is crucial to know which one will best serves your needs.
Jumo, launched by the Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, offers an unprecedented
hub for non-profit groups and organizations: it aims to be a
social network for social causes.
Nowadays, using social networks to spread activities of an organization is becoming increasingly common. Facebook, with more than 400 millions users worldwide is a good way to reach public.
Nowadays, your mobile can help you from being threatened. In Kenya, Ory Okollo created a website, named Ushahidi.com, to denounce social and political violence, murder, torture and sexual abuses.
Twitter or micro-blogging. In other words, the possibility to post on your account short messages of 140 characters maximum. More verbal logorrhoea, concision and especially massive amount of links. Twitter is like helping information, improving its spreading.
It has become natural to have an account in facebook or in any of the hundreds of social networks available in the internet. Through them we, as individuals, create societies united by certain features in common. Scoutle allows you to socialize in the network too but this time as a blogger.
The famous tool or social network twitter surprises us by the number of networks that it has been creating: there are groups that talk about health, searching for missing people, investigation matters, all those topics that one may arrive at the asking What are you doing?. The result is such that, depending on how you use the network, it may be very useful to your organization.
