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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Odds are, LinkedIn Analytics will evolve to become some of the most useful data in your social media strategy. Curated content relevant to your mission. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe).

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Building Personal Relationships with Thousands at a Time

NetWits

Let’s say your organization has 3 primary service programs: animals, homeless and youth. Using either a Constituent Attribute (to collect information during New User Registration or on a Profile Form) or a Poll on the Return User Landing Page (ensuring the user is signed in when taking), let’s ask: Which activity do you most enjoy?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots.

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Fundraising for Education: Your Guide to Doing Virtual Fundraising Right

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Use Data From Past Events to Set New Fundraising Goals. While there are certainly some best practices in fundraisers, looking at your data can help you see what’s working best for your nonprofit, because every nonprofit is unique. Use that data to set (and achieve) SMART goals for your nonprofit fundraising efforts!

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Be A Big Listener

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Their team also leads attention campaigns, informed by data and inspired by online conversations.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data easy to reuse. Note to self, look for a 2-3 minute video about one of the steps) The poll feature was great way to engage people and I wish I had thought though some more of those to incorporate along the way. I think showing the Web 2.0 video and having people type themes into the chat worked. Interactive. Collaborating.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

Here’s a hint: They want to know the inside scoop on what it takes to save bears or tutor kids or help homeless veterans. Engagement through thank-yous, polls, contests, or highlighting a volunteer or project. Before you post, think about what THEY want to know. What are they interested in? Saving bears? Children? JUST for fun!