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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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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

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Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. It’s where you set the emotional tone, establish the context of time and place, and let the audience know that this content is for them. That’s not how we should approach editing.

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Is it better to Retweet old-school style, or use Twitter’s Retweet function?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) Twitter only counts the content of the Tweet (minus the Twitter username) as characters towards the 140-character limit, so you can Retweet longer Tweets. 2) You can’t edit the Retweets before they are sent out, and some Tweets really need to be edited for spelling, punctuation, and hashtag spamming! 2) It’s easy.

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6 Ways to Keep Your Organization Secure

Tech Soup

Box lets you manage and collaborate on content with staff members and volunteers and distribute content to beneficiaries. Mailshell and Red Earth: Spam Be Gone. The Mailshell donation program at TechSoup provides desktop spam filtering software to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries throughout the United States.

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Five Online Fundraising Best Practices for Small NGOs in Developing Countries

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, many small NGOs have websites that haven’t been updated in years and are often not created using a Content Management System (CMS) which makes it very difficult for them to update and edit their own websites. In the United States this is called fiscal sponsorship. Many NGOs do send e-newsletters, but via BCC.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. 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. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message.

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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

Nearly ubiquitous in the United States. Spam filters serve as email’s natural predator, but even something as common as low open rates can get an organization’s messages sent to the “other” folder in the inbox. Why do I count Facebook boosting/content promotion as a strength? Email Strengths: .