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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

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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 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

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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. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI.

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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

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There’s always room for improvement and unfortunately overconfidence in social media skills prevent many nonprofit staff from getting training that could significantly increase their social media ROI (Return on Investment). 1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Google, etc.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

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Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). 5) LinkedIn . Reserve your LinkedIn Public Profile URL. Join and participate in LinkedIn Groups. Experiment with LinkedIn Answers. Create a master login sheet. Create galleries.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

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The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn is a powerhouse in ROI.

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10 Signs Your Small Nonprofit Excels at Social Media

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LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, YouTube, Google+, Vine, Tumblr? Even more cumbersome is the trend to not only publish your stories on your blog and website, but to also have to publish them on Medium , Steller , as Facebook Notes , on LinkedIn Publisher , and soon directly into Google.com. Yeah, right.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K.