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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Upload your avatar/logo (250 x 250), a cover photo(1128 x 191), add a description and website URL, your company/organization size, industry, and city and country. LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Write content and secure photos for website pages. Create and organize photos into collections and sets. Write content and secure photos for blog pages. Create a master login sheet.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor. Finally, pick a day of the month to begin and enter the baseline metrics for the first month, then enter your progress for that month on the same day of every month thereafter.

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Metrics for Virtual Worlds: Can you measure engagement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo from Carmello. Rik Riel is has also written about this and has described it as "avatar engagement." " Everywhere I go in virtual world circles, I seem to encounter folks wrestling with the question: how do you measure avatar engagement? "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As an outside observer, the lessons that I took away from this effort were: Having people change their avatar to a pea photo gave a visual clue to the campaign and helped it spread. One metric for me in measuring success, was I able to inspire other people to take action? (at It generated some valuable insights from donors.

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Social Media Glossary: 34 Terms to Know

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For instance, you’d do this if you wanted to give credit to that true friend who took that photo of you from all your best angles. A user’s visual identity in the form of a photo on their account or a cartoon of themselves in a message. Not to be confused with James Cameron’s famously blue avatars. A/B test .