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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. Admins can invite up to 1,250 of their connections to attend the event and engage attendees with live chat and polls.

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Get the Tools to Train and Educate

Tech Soup

You can use Atomic Training to help your organization maximize its tech tools and software products. Job training for at-risk youth, veterans reentering the workforce, or even homeless populations. Check out guides to available online tools for training staff. to see how organizations are putting these tools to work.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots.

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Be A Big Listener

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Public opinion polls provide some types of insight, but take time and money. The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. We’re repurposing a commercial tool to monitor an issue, but using it in a very different way. Are people more compassionate to animals, more generous towards the homeless?

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Fundraising for Education: Your Guide to Doing Virtual Fundraising Right

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Finally, you want to make sure you add interactive elements to your livestream, whether that’s by adding chat people can use to ask questions, or y breaking up your livestream with polls, quizzes, raffles, etc. John Center for Homeless Men recently added some engagement to their Raisin’ the Rent event with virtual house parties !

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note to self, look for a 2-3 minute video about one of the steps) The poll feature was great way to engage people and I wish I had thought though some more of those to incorporate along the way. I told Marnie's story about the Northern CA Homeless Group story and someone pointed out that the homeless photo I used was from Washington, DC.

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[VIDEO] Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle: Grant Seeking Lessons and Pro-tips from the Field

Bloomerang

We’ve got some polls for you. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Most of you have answered, so we’re going to just end the poll. So I’m actually going to launch my second poll.

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