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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. Gmail, Yahoo, etc. LinkedIn Pages.

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Which Company is the Most Socially Responsible and Generous to Nonprofits: Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? LinkedIn? MySpace? Flickr? Google?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For the companies themselves, this relationship also presents their marketing departments with numerous opportunities to embrace cause marketing and corporate social responsibility. Facebook helped launch the company Causes which has raised more than $20 million for various nonprofits. Owned by Yahoo!, 1) Facebook.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

Do you know how many of your supporters use popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube? With usage stats like that it’s probably safe to assume that a large portion of your supporter are using at least one social network, right? of the entire American population use Facebook. —

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How “Facebook Questions” Can Help Small NonProfits

Wild Apricot

Facebook is rolling out a new feature called Facebook Questions – similar to what’s offered by LinkedIn, Yahoo Questions, and other Q&A sites. A new way to reach potential supporters, and to spread the word about your cause! Ask questions, answer them, and rate (or be rated) for best answers. What does this mean for nonprofits?

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. 8) Do not use a Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail email address for your professional communications. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Always include a salutation (Hello, Dear, etc.)

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Facebook, which is the dominant social networking platform globally with 2.4 When this came to light, Yahoo was in the midst of negotiations to sell the company to Verizon. Instead, during a sensitive time, Yahoo found itself publicly announcing that it had been hacked—the largest in history—by a “state-sponsored actor.”

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Great reads from around the web on February 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

Net2 Think Tank: Online Fundraising Lessons Learned | NetSquared – "The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations. But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do. . "Launched

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