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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. Keep Your Group’s Summary and Description Brief. You’re attempting to build a community on LinkedIn, not to build your Facebook or Twitter community.

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NPTech Summary: Happy Holidays!

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Things are slowing down during the holidays , so here's a short version of the NpTech Tag Summary. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Another part of my position is coaching the volunteers to embrace social media and use it to mobilize their volunteer base and communicate our message in their communities. Summary of ROI. We have over 70 affiliates in the U.S. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI.

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NpTechTag Summary: Connected Conversations, Live Blogging, and Other Great Finds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 It's always nice to discover redesigned nonprofit web sites with a web2.0

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. NetEquality provides resources for nonprofits government agencies, communities, housing authorities, and CDCs to install their wireless networks.

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Vote for the Best Social Change and Technology Projects at Netsquared!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To vote, read through the Voting Guidelines , and their handy Voter Guide , which includes short summaries of the 150+ nominated projects. CompuMentor has created a Technology Innovation Fund to provide direct cash support to projects selected by the NetSquared Community. Avatar Action Center. Creative Commons suggests.