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How to Promote an Event on Instagram to Boost Attendance

Bloomerang

Of the major social media platforms, Instagram routinely tops the list as one of the most important engagement channels for nonprofits looking to reach a wider, younger audience. These tools allow your nonprofit event organizers to monitor social media chatter about your events and connect with supporters who are talking about it.

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What is rapid attention shifting?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment. despite the hype that ???everybody

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LinkedIn: The MySpace for Adults

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The articles I've read with hype headlines like "My Space For Grown-Ups" or " LinkedIn or Left Out " describe LinkedIn is as necessary a business tool as a laptop or a cell phone. I've received LinkedIn alerts from contacts in the nonprofit space who are distributing a job description or recruiting.