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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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Phishing Scam: Habitat for Humanity fundraising

Robert Weiner

Hello Prospective Employee, At HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL, we work hard to improve and provide training, technical expertise and support in fund-raising to the national organizations in all the regions of the world. Tags: Phishing Spam. Subject: Important Message(Job Offer). 44(0)7031883958, +14092915940. Registered No.

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Behind the Scenes Experimentation with Social Gaming for Social Good from HandsOn Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media and social networking suddenly made it possible for HandsOn Network , at the national level, to speak directly to individuals and, intriguingly, for them to speak to each other. With a “launch and learn” mandate from our CEO, we began an experiment in social gaming for social good 16 days ago which is an online game of Tag.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

Could mean that users don’t have a way to manage the amount of posts (read: spam) that could get through to them… I got an error that said only letters, spaces and punctuation were allowed… no numbers?! Tags: community networking jumo nonprofits social media social network.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

For example, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) created a space for a Training Officers Community of Practice. Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. That can make it difficult to navigate.

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Things We Like (January 2009)

NTEN

The return of technology as a national priority. Tag Galaxy maps Flickr photos onto a virtual solar system. The SpamTrap , "an interactive installation piece that prints, shreds and blacklists spam email". Tags: NPTech NTEN Newsletter Things We Like. Economy still got you down? That's gotta feel good.

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. I thought I’d tweeted about it so much that Twitter was going to suspend my account for spamming—yet many of my followers didn’t even know about it.

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