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Content Curation: Are You A Fire Hose or A Focusing Lens?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your nonprofit do content curation as part of its content strategy? Content curation is the organizing, filtering and “making sense of” information on the web and sharing the very best pieces of content that you’ve cherry picked and shared with your network. It is a great technique to keep up with your field.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, it’s important to understand that the type of content that performs best on LinkedIn is a bit different than Facebook and more similar to Twitter. Content that focuses on thought leadership, rather than inspirational storytelling, best serves the tone of the LinkedIn community. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Nonprofit Email: The Rules of Engagement

Pamela Grow

That’s right, your lovingly crafted social media content is often met with nothing more than a virtual tumbleweed rolling by. You’ll want to spend as much time on your subject line as you do on the content. Your Footer: This is the content at the bottom of your email. So, what do you think? Test your subject lines.

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Building Blocks of Effective Creative: Relevance

M+R

We began to unpack the challenges and obligations of developing ethical creative in a roundtable discussion with our friends Amirio Freeman of Feeding America and Rosa Del Angel of Oxfam America. But here’s the thing: The audience for a piece of creative must believe the content is relevant to them, or they will ignore it.

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Widget for Publishing RSS Headlines

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reed Stockman from AFP Blog (Associate of Fundraising Professionals) told me that he is using a widget called RSSMIX to combine feeds and republish them on their Master Blog. He goes on to mention that they're still learning about their audience and how they access the content on the organization's blog. drives traffic c.)

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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Customize Your Headline. By default, LinkedIn uses the title of your current position as your “Professional Headline.” You can customize your headline and add more detail and personality by going to “Edit Profile.” Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying.

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Facebook Usage Declines: What Does It Mean for Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As we all know, in early January, Facebook announced some sweeping changes in the News Feed to prioritize content from friends and family and fewer updates from brands and news. What does the research say over Facebook usage after the News Feed changes? Zuckerberg went on to say that this was a good thing.