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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. Since the LinkedIn community is a social network built for business and nonprofit professionals, it is absolutely a best practice to tag and thank your corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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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. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement.

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The Networked Nonprofit Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He raises a good point and even makes up a new word: spamanthropism (spam + philanthropism). It describes social media for social good that is so obnoxious that it feels like spam. That evening, Public Conversations Project and the TechFoundation , are hosting a book event from 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tags: Promotions.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Featured projects receive grant awards ! Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Some really cool events flowing through the NpTech Tag Stream!

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Phishing Scam: Habitat for Humanity fundraising

Robert Weiner

Balances (after the 10%) shall be required to be forwarded to the Regional Co-ordinators of the various charitable projects we are involved in around the Globe. Tags: Phishing Spam. This serves as your remuneration for the great service you would be rendering in support of saving lives in the third-world countries.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

It seems that you have to have an organizational presence on facebook in order for the project page on Jumo to work/look right – I put in my facebook ID, thinking it was verifying my association as the admin on the organizational account, but instead it put my photo and info as the organization’s! Facebook Requirements.

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Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With a “launch and learn” mandate from our CEO, we began an experiment in social gaming for social good 16 days ago which is an online game of Tag. Our hope is that Tag will pull natural volunteer leaders together and seed an online community. About 23% of those tagged are joining the game. Is that good? Perhaps that’s true.

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