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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. 51% of its users are college-educated , 20% are senior-level professionals, and the average salary for a LinkedIn user is $46,644 USD per year. That changed when LinkedIn was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.2 LinkedIn Pages.

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Nonprofit Communications Plan: How-To Identify an Audience and Create an Avatar

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Your audience should feel as though your content was written directly to them, which is where constructing an avatar – or ideal customer – comes into play. We will talk more about avatars in just a moment. One of the best ways to identify your audience is through an avatar. Avatar is a fancy word for ideal consumer.

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. These best practices will also be demonstrated live in the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Twitter and LinkedIn. for Nonprofits. Require Approval to Join.

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10 Signs Your NGO Excels at Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The webinar content below was presented by Heather Mansfield on September 19, 2017 to 1,175 nonprofit staff. Your NGO consistently creates written content. All blog and news content must have social sharing functionality, calls-to-follow, and an email update subscribe option. Your NGO consistently creates visual content.

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The Importance of Branding Your Nonprofit on Social Networks Through Graphic Design

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A good content strategy requires time and skills to execute and the successful management of your social networks requires training. An Avatar :: 200 x 200 pixels. Your avatar should compliment or be extracted from your logo: 2. LinkedIn Banner :: 646 x 220 pixels. LinkedIn Banner :: 646 x 220 pixels.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images.

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Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for January 2012 illuminating that Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

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