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
- Browse Facebook articles: Read summaries of Facebook how-to’s
- Build authority: Enhance your nonprofit’s Facebook influence
- Complete Facebook Guide (104 pages)
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
Fundraising
- Fundraising articles
- Top 5 social fundraising tools
- 24 tools for fundraising with social media
- How charity: water leads the way in social fundraising
- Fundraising with social media — the right way
- What’s your video strategy to raise funds?
Handouts
- Handouts page
- 10 free metrics tools
- 45 hashtags for social change
- 10 social media monitoring tools
- 10 collaboration tools
- 12 steps to mobilize your cause
- 10 mobile apps for social good
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 guides & resources
- 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
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
Law
- A roundup of our guides to grassroots media & the law
- How to prevent against online libel and defamation
- Guide to shooting photos in public
- The rules around capturing public performances
- Fair use in the digital age
Government 2.0
- Government 2.0 resources, tools & sites
- Open Government review
Cause organizations
- A deep, timely directory of cause organizations making a difference in the social change & nonprofit worlds, with reviews
Free reports
- The Web’s best directory of free reports & whitepapers
- social media & social networking
- nonprofits & public interest
- Internet use
- Media
- Mobile
All of these guides, directories and tutorials live on the Socialbrite site except where noted. Some of these are likely out of date.
Credits
Power guides image by Cambodia4kids; Monitoring photo by CaronNYC; Partners photo by Jemingway