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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. Be generous with endorsing the skills of others as endorsements are often reciprocated. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

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Struggling with gaps in talent and skills, organizations are starting to invest more heavily in technologies to predict their training requirements, understand their learners and to create exciting ways to deliver training and learning to their employees.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

What do you think are the most important skills necessary in a social media practitioner? An important skill is knowing how to connect with your constituents online. People can text ACTION to 25383 make a $10 donation. We currently have a “Share” button on all pages, yet I want to take it a few steps further. (3)

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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle

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They turn on the system, choose their avatars, and are suddenly transported into the video game. Once inside the world of Jumanji, the students assume the form of their chosen avatars. During a test, Bethany’s teacher notices Bethany is on the phone. Each of the characters has a unique set of skills.

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Berkman Island on Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(Click through to the larger version to read the poster) I've been going to meetings on information island at the TechSoup area in Second Life where a small group of avatars interested in nonprofits and Second Life have been busy working on some exciting plans lead by Susan Tenby of TechSoup. Next meeting is 10:30 a.m.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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4,393 Reasons Why I Like TweetDeck And Other Ways To Drink from the Fire Hydrant

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About ten days ago, shortly after I finished presenting at the Share Our Strength Conference my mobile phone started to vibrate wildly because it was getting many incoming text messages.   Profile View:  You can click on the person's avatar/profile and it shows up in another screen.    (See above). 

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