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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. LinkedIn Pages. For example: 1.

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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. To make matters worse, most millennials live their social lives online and are prone to information overload. Encourage user-generated storytelling with social media.

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We Are Visible: Empowering Homeless People Through Social Media

Tech Soup

Mark's expertise in video production, his personal experience with homelessness, and his huge heart uniquely position him to help homeless people share their stories. are emotionally difficult, but they put a much-needed human face on the complexities of homelessness in America. Many of the interviews on InvisiblePeople.tv

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10 Types of Nonprofits That Absolutely Must Add Themselves to Foursquare

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Part social networking site, part smartphone App, Foursquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. Food banks and homeless shelters: St. Tags: FourSquare Mobile Technology. Foursquare now has 1.6 million users. Libraries :: New York Public Library. Mary’s Food Bank. More on those soon!

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Can Small Nonprofits Reap Success With Social Media? (Giving away a copy of Twitter for Dummies)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Is social media appropriate or relevant for smaller resource strapped organizations? . At the time was getting my feet on the ground with social networking. Tags: twitter.

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A Few Reviews of The Networked Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. Devon Smith.

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Has Your Organization Thought Through its Social Media Policy?

NTEN

Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Trying to raise money, you increase your social networking, adding that responsibility to one of your employees, one who is paid with grant funds. What part of social networking can be charged to program funds? Close the door! Not really.