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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. LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. What is needed to achieve it?

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#GivingTuesday: Why I Am Participating in the National Day of Giving on November 27, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What are the transaction and transformation metrics? The first is easy – dollars raised, # of volunteers, etc. These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0 As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. NpTech Talk.

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On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women. Conventional wisdom has always said that nonprofits should focus on either service or advocacy, but not both. So what should nonprofits be doing?

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Be A Big Listener

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“Big listening is taking all the conversations that are going on online and trying to find pockets; in our case, ocean issues like MPAs (marine protected areas), overfishing, sustainable seafood, whales, bluefin tuna, ocean acidification, sharks, and shark finning, “ explains Matt Fitzgerald, Upwell’s Curator & Social Metrics Manager.

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7 Keys to an Effective Social Media Ambassador Program

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Treat your ambassadors as insiders who are doing much more than growing vanity metrics – they are helping to steer a movement. . Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… Share that. I’m not saying you skip the tactical discussions, just don’t jump right there as step #1.