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“Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations” LinkedIn Group Reaches 40,000 Members

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group reached 40,000 members today – a benchmark that took three years, 323 days, and countless clicks of “Flag as Promotion” and “Block & Delete” to keep the group as spam free as possible and on its trajectory of growth. Attention Nonprofits!

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11 LinkedIn Group Management Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By default, logging in regularly to approve new members also makes you a better group manager, because while you are logged in, you should also be participating in discussions and managing spam. Requiring approval to join forces you to be engaged in your group on a regular basis and take responsibility for monitoring spam.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. For example, the @MarshallProj has Summary with Large Image Cards enabled for their website content: 5) Curate good content through retweets.

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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. What you usually see there (and what most people ignore) are tweets that have been automatically posted in the LinkedIn news feed from your personal profile. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Resist the urge and do not automate!

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NpTech Tag Summary: Putting the U in YouTube, Some Cool Events, and Electronic Sheep Dreams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category. NpTech Talk.

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11 LinkedIn Profile Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You should add a brief, succinct bio to the summary field. What you usually see there (and what most people ignore) are tweets that have been automatically posted in the LinkedIn news feed from your personal profile. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Resist the urge and do not automate!

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Their experience of your page will occur primarily in the News Feed. First impressions are important on social media.

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