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Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror

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Q: Do I know what my goals and guidelines are? What brand guidelines do you need to follow to be transparent and honest with your audiences? Eliminate, or clarify, any jargon or Official Language that may be opaque to readers. The greatest enemy of a direct response email is the spam filter. Wonky language and jargon.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To begin, provide your staff, board members, and volunteers guidelines for maximizing their LinkedIn Profiles , such as: Complete their profile and upload a professional photo. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications. List all current and past positions as well as education.

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Do You Need to Register to Fundraise Online? A Crash Course

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Today, most modern nonprofits engage in at least limited online fundraising to engage supporters even while following social distancing guidelines. The exact language used in laws concerning online fundraising can sometimes be vague in order to encompass a wide range of nonprofit organizations and their unique practices.

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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

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Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive. It’s primarily intended to prevent spam email ads from commercial entities, but nonprofits are not exempt.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Basic knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) will make or break your social media campaigns. You should also never automate content using these tools, or spam each community with the same message.

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How To Create and Optimize a Facebook Content Strategy – Advice from Alison Zarrella

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Any guidelines? The most common complaint from Facebook users is Newsfeed spam, and the most popular Pages post once a day or less. A good rule is that abusive or foul language will be removed, as well as overtly promotional links that don’t apply to your mission or interest. How should a nonprofit make that decision?

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the problems with tagging is the ambiguity of language that we use for tags. Show your terms in their language.??? Control: There will be no handbook or style guidelines for tag syntax on delicious (e.g. His definition of tag spam: A bookmark with 1,000 different tags. There 2-3 spam incidents a week.

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