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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Stories are a great way to inspire action, get thousands of “likes” and online followers, further spreading your message across social networks. Explain in detail what aspects of their stories you want them to share, why you want them to share, and the social media platforms you want them to use. Tap into shared experiences.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners.

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We Are Visible: Empowering Homeless People Through Social Media

Tech Soup

Mark's expertise in video production, his personal experience with homelessness, and his huge heart uniquely position him to help homeless people share their stories. are emotionally difficult, but they put a much-needed human face on the complexities of homelessness in America. Many of the interviews on InvisiblePeople.tv

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10 Types of Nonprofits That Absolutely Must Add Themselves to Foursquare

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Part social networking site, part smartphone App, Foursquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. Food banks and homeless shelters: St. Tags: FourSquare Mobile Technology. Foursquare now has 1.6 million users. Libraries :: New York Public Library. Mary’s Food Bank. More on those soon!

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A Few Reviews of The Networked Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit.

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Can Small Nonprofits Reap Success With Social Media? (Giving away a copy of Twitter for Dummies)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. At the time was getting my feet on the ground with social networking. Thank you, for encouraging the little guy like me to tackle social networking. ". Tags: twitter.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. if not free) technologies. Your new iPhone. like delicious.com.