Social Media Resources and Links

Here are some Web Sites that offer good advice about Social Media for Nonprofits:

• Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Blog: developed by Heather Mansfield, author of Social Media for Social Good.
• Beth's Blog: How Networked Nonprofits Are Using Social Media to Power Change, developed by Beth Kantor.
• TechSoup:  Technology products and information for nonprofits. Take a look at the TechSoup Learning Center for how-to articles.

Here are some blogs and other online publications that come out of the labor movement. Some are from major labor unions, others are produced by labor-friendly organizations.

• AFL-CIO Now :  Articles from a group of AFL-CIO writers on political, economic, and labor events and trends.
• AFSCME Blog
• Edwize: Education News and Opinion (AFT) : Blogging on NYC schools since 2005.
• Interfaith Worker Justice
• Labor’s Edge, California Labor Federation : “Views from the California Labor Movement”; good articles on a variety of subjects.
• Minnesota Nurses (Official Blog of the Minnesota Nurses Association) : An essential part of their 2010 contract compaign.
• Next Generation Labor : Articles on how social media and other technology tools can be used in labor organizing.
• Retail Action Project: News from this activist workers organization. 
• Wisconsin State AFL-CIO Blog  
• Minnesota Labor Twitter Digest (created with paper.li)

Here are some Facebook pages representing labor unions,  union campaigns, worker organizations, activist groups:

• New York State Nurses Association   
• Chicago Teachers Union
• Retail Action Project  
• Labor Notes

• Wal mart Black Friday Strike
• CWA Local 1109 : Union local that created page using "local business" option, must "like" page.
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Here are resource pages for active bloggers:

• Legal Guide for Bloggers : From the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
•  Free and Legal Stuff you can USE! : from the Copyright Librarian Blog.
• Social Networking Privacy: How to be Safe, Secure and Social

Union Guides:

• How To Use Social Media For Your Union (AFGE) (20019, pdf)
• IATSE Social Media Guide

Additional training on BLOGGING/FACEBOOK/TWITTER:

• http://act.aflcio.org/content_item/2013-digital-training  (AFL-CIO) has #1uDigital Training Series for Social Media (includes video, PPT)

SOCIAL MEDIA SITES

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/

Blogger: https://www.blogger.com/

Wordpress: https://wordpress.org/ (free version for blogging)

Instagram: https://instagram.com/ 

Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/ (video)

Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/ (video)

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/ (photos)

Paper.li: http://paper.li/ (create an online newspaper)