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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. LinkedIn Pages.

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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. Homelessness and Mobile Technology. The Nonprofit Quarterly shared an interesting story from the National Desert News about the benefits of mobile access for homeless populations.

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A Few Reviews of The Networked Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit.

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Can Small Nonprofits Reap Success With Social Media? (Giving away a copy of Twitter for Dummies)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. At the time was getting my feet on the ground with social networking. Thank you, for encouraging the little guy like me to tackle social networking. ". What do you have to lose?

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door! Not really.

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Basic Tips for Evaluating New Technologies for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. on homeless issues, access to healthcare, or wetland preservation are. if not free) technologies. Your new iPhone. Consult your.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

Tech Soup

Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online. Tell us about it in the comments! July is digital storytelling month Down Under. Learn how not to make three digital storytelling mistakes. Learn how the experts (librarians!) Image: Cowboy ( Steve Corey ).

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