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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. Since the LinkedIn community is a social network built for business and nonprofit professionals, it is absolutely a best practice to tag and thank your corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s "It seems to me that the tag is not that useful ??? social network and community sites.

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How to Build a Strong Digital Presence for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofits Source

If you modify any of these branding elements, make sure to reflect this change in your style guide so all members of your team know how to express your updated brand. . Sequential HTML heading tags. Your heading tags should occur in a hierarchical order, so ensure your title uses an H1 tag, subheaders use H2 tags, and so on. .

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The Networked Nonprofit – #10NTC

Amy Sample Ward

Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook. Step 3: Reflection – where the greatest learning is. Operational guidelines need to be specific and include examples! Reflection. It’s evolving the social culture of the organization. Simplicity.

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

Amy Sample Ward

I had planned to take the day off from work to remember and reflect on the service of those in my family (my grandfather, now passed), and in my community. obviously tied to the campaign, and reflective of the call to action means it is likely people will use it and engage.

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SXSW 2013 – Are You A Social Media Nonprofit Manager Looking for Your Peers? #npsmpeer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Thinking About Networks and Social Media and Online Collaborations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to follow along, we're using the #networkf tag on Twitter. The guidelines are no live tweeting of confidential information! . Steve Downs from Robert Wood Johnson shared some reflections on a foundation-wide effort to become a web 2.0 Tags: network effectiveness scholar. Most of the ones that.