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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

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By default, logging in regularly to approve new members also makes you a better group manager, because while you are logged in, you should also be participating in discussions and managing spam. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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Four Reasons Why Nonprofits Should Follow More on Twitter

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1) Each new “Follow” results in more exposure for your nonprofit’s avatar, and thus likely more followers of your nonprofit. Every time you follow a new Twitterer that is one more time that your nonprofit’s avatar is seeded throughout the Twitterverse. As of today that number is 82,250.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

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It will help you centralize all your efforts and reduce the amount of spam and notification e-mails sent to your work e-mail account. Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message.

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HOW TO: Use Facebook Questions for Your Nonprofit

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On Quora you have to be a person, but Facebook Questions uses your nonprofit’s Page and avatar as your Facebook Questions identity. Unlike the Q&A site Quora, Facebook Questions allows brands to ask and answer questions.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

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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. Over the decade that followed, most groups became overrun with spam and tech glitches, and as a result, LinkedIn Groups almost became obsolete.

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10 Popular #Hashtags for Nonprofits

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There is such a thing as hashtag spamming. I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. If you use hashtags too often, then you dilute their usefulnesses by fragmenting the conversation.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

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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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