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#thankful4home: Raising Awareness Around Homelessness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

#thankful4home: A Lesson in Project Based Learning & Gratitude guest post by Lisa Colton. This fall and winter I’m working with a group of organizations in Chicago to raise awareness around homelessness, alongside screenings of the @Home documentary that features portraits of this issue through the eyes of activist Mark Horvath.

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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Explain in detail what aspects of their stories you want them to share, why you want them to share, and the social media platforms you want them to use. Then tie your user-generated stories together using hashtags and encourage them to tag your organization and share it with their social networks. Tap into shared experiences.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health. Curated content relevant to your mission.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it was 350 or ACE, or a group like Epic Change and their annual To Mama With Love projects. Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city.

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Collaboration on student projects or other ways.

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

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You need a well thought-out campaign with consistent messages and images across all platforms. What kind of projects or requests have they given the most to? Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. You need stories that show the impact your organization makes in the community.

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