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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. For example, the @MarshallProj has Summary with Large Image Cards enabled for their website content: 5) Curate good content through retweets.

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 in the newly released Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. 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.

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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. As you set up your profile, LinkedIn will display a thermometer indicating the percent to which your profile is complete.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To control spam, Facebook makes it impossible to email more than 20 people at a time, so to email your friend list, you must break your list down into groups of 20. In summary for Round 1, we had our friends vote, we had our friends ask their friends to vote, and we asked total strangers to vote…and it worked!

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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 6 of the recently released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. As you set up your profile, LinkedIn will display a thermometer indicating the percent to which your profile is complete.

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Software to Build and Grow Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

This program offers all of the features and protection of Norton AntiVirus but adds anti-phishing, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion firewalls; guards against adware, hackers, unwanted email, and unsafe search results; and protects against websites that try to trick you into divulging personal information.

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Nonprofits and the Age of Automation: AI, Machine Learning, Bots Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

CAF has coined the term “ philgorithms ” for algorithms of this kind.The report ends with a summary of high level trends that might impact civil society organizations, including a discussion on inequality, algorithmic bias and the future of work. In the last five years, he has been researching and writing about AI.

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