This is an incredible set of resources from the one and only SocialBrite.org – one of my personal favorite sites for all things social media, nonprofit, and technology. Thanks Team SocialBrite!
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Sharing Center
A free learning hub for nonprofits & change-makers:
Power guides, tools, tutorials, reports, resources & more
Power guides
- Social media glossary: The Web’s most up-to-date guide
- Free Photos, Music & Video Directories: Find materials to include in your own works
- Tutorials: social media, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, video & multimedia, fundraising, mobile & more
Twitter Guide
- Twitter tutorials: Twitter Lists, hashtags, Twitter stats & more
- Measure your performance & influence on Twitter
- Best Twitter dashboards for nonprofits
- Build a fan base: How to get more followers on Twitter
- Go viral: 13 ways to get your blog posts retweeted
- Facebook tutorials: Setting up a Page, plug-ins, Facebook Insights & more
- Master the basics: Take charge of Facebook’s news feeds
- Build authority: Enhance your nonprofit’s Facebook influence
- Complete Facebook Guide (104 pages)
Free reports
- The Web’s best directory of free reports & whitepapers
- social media & social networking
- nonprofits & public interest
- Internet use
- Media
- Mobile
Monitoring
- Monitoring resources: Articles, resources & tutorials on listening strategies and tools
- Guide to monitoring social media conversations
- 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools
- How to build & manage a monitoring dashboard
Metrics
- Metrics resources: Social influence measurements, social media ROI, stats to measure on Facebook and Twitter, metrics and analytics tools
- How to measure your nonprofit’s social media success
- 14 free tools to measure your social influence
Social media policies
- Social media policies: the best roundup of social media policies on the Web, organized by:
- Nonprofits
- News organizations
- Government
- Corporations
- Hospitals & health sector
- Additional resources
Handouts
Video & media
- Creating media: resources, tutorials on effective use of video, multimedia, audio, podcasting & more.
- Strategy: Step-by-step guide to creating a media strategy.
- Video skills: Guide to shooting better online video.
- Video guide: Elements of a video project
Mobile
- Mobile resources: How to get started, SMS campaigns & more
- The role of mobile phones in citizen media (28 pages, PDF)
- A user’s guide to mobile activism (16 pages, PDF)
- Mobilize your cause!
Tools for social change
- A collection of social tools, resources & tutorials
- Web 2.0 productivity tools: Top apps & tools
- 15 top Web conferencing services compared
- Social actions toolset
- Resources for citizen journalists & researchers
Law
Cause organizations
- A deep, timely directory of cause organizations making a difference in the social change & nonprofit worlds, with reviews
All of these guides, directories and tutorials live on the Socialbrite site except where noted. Please contribute your own resource listings! We share everything here under Creative Commons licenses.
Credits
Image credits for the rotating slide show for the Sharing Center navigation of Socialbrite.org (all photos are Creative Commons Attribution):
• Only Hope by royryap
• Andy at the Getty by Kevin Dooley
• torraera (camels) by bachmont
• Beautiful old lady from Darap (Sikkim) village by Sukanto Debnath
• Muchilottu Bhagavathy Theyyam ceremonial mask by freebird (bobinson)
• Blue (underwater statue) by John Carleton
• One gear in a Clock by G & M
• Untitled (flower) by josef.stuefer
Image credits for the rotating slide show for the Resources navigation of Socialmedia.biz (all photos are Creative Commons Attribution):
• The oyster in the shell by on1stsite(comp broken and in need of eyesurgery)
• Light Painting by Steve Jurvetson
• look downstairs into stairwell whirl by quapan
• Sarah Austin by JD Lasica
• Time by John Morgan
• Q-Park by Wolfgang Staudt
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Power guides image by Cambodia4kids; Monitoring photo by CaronNYC; Partners photo by Jemingway
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