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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. Use a Horizontal Avatar.

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Email is dead … long live Email?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First, spam was going to kill email. It certainly is true that most email sent these days is spam, but that hasn’t managed to kill it. Recent studies suggest that there is a demographic shift happening – social media being more primary communications avenues for Millenials and Gen Y, and email for everyone older.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today.

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The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide

Everyaction

Tip: Before looking at the different components you’ll share with the rest of the staff for this case statement, assemble your fundraising team to discuss internal project expectations. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign.

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Social Media 101 TweetChat: Facebook

Tech Soup

TechSoup kicked off its Social Media Mondays in May , designed to accompany the launch of the Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , with a discussion on using Facebook for nonprofits. Many organizations use Facebook to promote updates and activities that are added to their organization website.

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Meet Danielle Brigida: Ranger Rick's AlterEgo on Facebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We aren't talking about commercial use or spamming. Now that many nonprofits are using social networking actively during the holiday, I recently caught up with Danielle to learn about whether Ranger Rick is back on Facebook and what she has since learned that might be useful to nonprofits thinking about working on Facebook.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. The trust that comes with using social networks (engaging people you know, who engage the people they know, and so on) is what creates the power of using social networking tools.

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