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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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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement.

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Clueless Charity PR

Robert Weiner

First, the message is spam. What's special about a charity raising money for families in need at the holidays? Tags: Fundraising. I got a press release today from a PR firm promoting its client's plans to raise $1,000 for Thanksgiving meals and $5,000 for families in need at Christmas. Second, is this news?

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Joshua Schachter: Future of Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Future of Tagging ??? You might tag it with ???read_later,??? so those tags work well for you, but not necessarily the social system. The tags you use to describe something should be intuitive so you can recall the bookmark. You can assume, however, that someone will tag the item for how the group does it.???

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Phishing Scam: Habitat for Humanity fundraising

Robert Weiner

This is demonstrated in our role as a corporate sponsor for the HAITI RELIEF PROGRAM with money raised going towards helping displaced and disabled children and their families. Tags: Phishing Spam. We are an organization with a remarkable heritage. Coordinator's Desk, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL. +44(0)7031883958,

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Top 10 Threats to Higher Ed Computer Systems

Robert Weiner

Today a growing number of network bad guys are professional criminals, and they’re looking to steal real money. He then lists the following threats: #10: Spammers (&# attackers use college networks to help them send more spam&# ). #9: Tags: IT Management Security. No surprise there).

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Is Twitter for Old Folks? And other gems from TWTRCON

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Sunday, if you were tuning into Twitter you might have noticed the TWTRCON tag trending. Chris Pirillo was there and at one point got up and offered to do silly stunts if we donated money to 140 Smiles. Tags: twitter. Youth Haven't Adopted Twitter in Drives. The tweets were from a business conference focused on Twitter.

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