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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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11 Obvious Signs Your Nonprofit Needs Social Media Training

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Please be open to the idea that you may need social media training. The vast majority of logos are horizontal and when uploaded to social networks they either get cropped or shrunk so small that they are visually illegible. 4) You have not claimed your LinkedIn Company Page. We’re now ten years into the Social Web.

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LinkedIn for Nonprofits: 7 Best Practices for Social Media Success

Qgiv

Known as the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn is the go-to resource for millions of job-seekers, professionals, and businesses to network and connect. For nonprofits, LinkedIn can be a valuable tool to add to your social media toolbox. Create your company page. Optimize your photos.

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Great reads from around the web on December 22nd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But this definition conflicts with today’s concept of social networking, in which we interact primarily with screens rather than with people."

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. Even worse, misery loves company and where one troll finds an online home, many others follow and settle in.

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Social Media Monitoring in 30 Minutes or Less

NetWits

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. To get the RSS feed URL you’ll want to look for something that looks like what you see to the left.

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Facebook, Open Social, Networked Relationship Building, and Leveraging Social Capital

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you have a significant contingent of people networked via Facebook who are not joining your email list but are receiving messages, feeds, events, etc from you via Facebook? I am curious about how the network activity becomes part of (or relates to) the organizational activity. It happens one person at a time.