Helpful links to starting up social media sites for your organization:

Facebook: Connect with friends, organizations, businesses. Share information, events, photos, videos. Create a dialogue about issues you care about.

• Link Facebook to Twitter
• How to promote your Facebook page outside of Facebook 

Twitter: Send short messages (Tweets) to friends, colleagues, clients, organization, businesses and more. Share information and events.

• Twitter widgets

URL shorteners: Helps keep links short

• Bitly
• Owly
• TinyURL

Add This: A toolbar that allows you to quickly add online content to your Twitter and Facebook pages and more.

Google Apps:

• Alerts: Email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
• Analytics: Enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness
• Blogger: A free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video.
• Calendar: Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of life's important events all in one place.

Online Fundraising

• GiveMN.org: Online giving site for all Minnesota nonprofits. There is a transaction fee to use.
• Fundraising123.org: Fabulous free information from Network for Good about online fundraising and using social networking for your organization.

Social Media for Nonprofits blogs:

Social Media Social Good - Reasons why your organization should have a social media presence

Beth's Blog - How Nonprofit Organizations Can Use Social Media to Power Social Networks for Change

Nonprofit Marketing Guide blog - Katya Andresen's blog on nonprofit marketing, fundraising, social media and doing good in the world better and faster.