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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By default, logging in regularly to approve new members also makes you a better group manager, because while you are logged in, you should also be participating in discussions and managing spam. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. Over the decade that followed, most groups became overrun with spam and tech glitches, and as a result, LinkedIn Groups almost became obsolete.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Follow More on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

1) Each new “Follow” results in more exposure for your nonprofit’s avatar, and thus likely more followers of your nonprofit. Every time you follow a new Twitterer that is one more time that your nonprofit’s avatar is seeded throughout the Twitterverse. As of today that number is 82,250.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Some common metrics to monitor are website traffic, blog traffic, e-newsletter subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, online dollars raised, volunteers, and event attendees. It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account. Learn Basic HTML.

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10 Popular #Hashtags for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns ( #climatechange ) and events ( #openwebawards ). There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. event] and [campaign]. You use it to send a shout out to your followers.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

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Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. There's YouTube video here.