Archive | Nonprofits RSS feed for this section

Facebook Secret: Only 3% – 7% of your Facebook Fans are seeing your Fan Page Posts!

By Emily Garman on April 4, 2012 in Facebook, Networking, Nonprofits, Social Media

Engagement is “Likes”, “Comments” and “Shares”. If your number of likes, comments and shares are consistently low, EdgeRank will determine that your fans are not interested in your page posts and your post will no longer appear on your fan’s Facebook wall. A person “Liking” your page is no guarantee that they will see all […]

Read full story • Comments { 1 }

New Facebook Timeline Layout for Pages

By Emily Garman on March 30, 2012 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW, Video Tutorials

On March 30, 2012, ALL Facebook pages will automatically switch to the new Timeline layout. Whether you like it or not, Timeline is here for your business or organization page, so you might as well make the most of it! I’ll show you tricks to customize your page and get it launched, and then I’ll […]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

My Gift to You: End of Year Fundraising Campaign – Use it now!

By Emily Garman on December 13, 2011 in Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW

My gift to you this year are the text and images for an end-of-year holiday fundraising campaign. Use it today–there are just a few weeks left before 2012!

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Is Katherine Heigl’s “I Hate Balls” Campaign a Good One?

By Emily Garman on November 30, 2011 in Fun Sites, Nonprofits, Social Media

Katherine Heigl’s “I Hate Balls” campaign for neutering pets (Produced by FunnyOrDie.com) has animal welfare people buzzing. But is it actually motivating people to neuter their pets? Is it a good campaign? Come on over and let’s discuss!

Read full story • Comments { 12 }

How to Secure Your WordPress Site

By Emily Garman on November 26, 2011 in Blogging, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW

Do you host your site on WordPress? You can do simple things to protect your WordPress site using these great (free) WordPress plugins that protect your Internet real estate. It will take 20 minutes or so, and will save you a world of hurt if your site is ever hacked.

Read full story • Comments { 2 }

Workaround for Paypal Donate Button Error on Facebook Page

By Emily Garman on September 5, 2011 in Facebook, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW, Video Tutorials

In last week’s webinar about creating custom tabs on your Facebook pages, we talked about inserting a Paypal donate button. Some of you were getting error messages from the donate button that wouldn’t let donors progress on to the donate page. So I’ve come up with a workaround, explained in this video.

Read full story • Comments { 37 }

Watch Video: How to Create Custom Tabs on your Facebook Page

By Emily Garman on September 2, 2011 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW, Video Tutorials

If you missed yesterday’s webinar where we learned how to create custom tabs for our Facebook pages, you can watch the recording here! If you still have any questions, please post them in the comments below; I’m glad to help.

Read full story • Comments { 19 }

Free Webinar: Creating Custom Tabs on your Facebook Page

By Emily Garman on August 29, 2011 in Facebook, Hot Tips, Nonprofits, Social Media, Things You Can Do NOW, Video Tutorials

Are you using Facebook to its fullest potential? You can have more on your Facebook page than the usual Photos, Wall, Events, etc. You could have a donate page, or a listing of your adoptable animals, or a photo gallery, or an email list signup box, or a calendar, or an event invitation…the list goes […]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Watch Video: Facebook for Total Beginners Webinar

By Emily Garman on August 11, 2011 in Facebook, Nonprofits, Social Media, Video Tutorials

Watch a video recording of today’s webinar, “Facebook for Total Beginners,” and let me know what questions you have, and what types of webinars YOU would like to attend!

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

← Previous 1 2 3 4 … 7 Next →

Free Social Media Policy

Sign up below and I'll send you a Animal Welfare Social Media Policy. Learn how to protect your animal welfare organization's reputation.

I will never share, rent, sell or do anything with your email address other than send you emails once a month or so about social media news, tricks and tips. Most everything I offer is free information, but sometimes I do have classes or products for sale. You can unsubscribe at any time!<

Who is The Social Animal?

Emily Garman is COO of Oklahoma Media Group, a web design/application development firm. Her passion is animal welfare, as is evidenced by 15+ years volunteering with local rescue organizations as a foster mom as well as providing her company's services. TheSocialAnimal.com is a side project devoted to teaching animal welfare advocates how to use social media to accomplish their mission more effectively. Emily lectures on nonprofit marketing all over the USA and is available for booking at conferences and for private consultations.

Free Social Media Policy

Who is The Social Animal?

Recent Posts

Categories

Subscribe / Connect

Blogroll