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Nonprofit profiles: advancing equity through data

Candid

Recent data from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) drives this point home. TAG found that 39% of grant applications they reviewed are duplicative across funders. Nonprofit profiles . Digging in to the problem .

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. 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. LinkedIn Pages.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. 1) Set up your nonprofit’s Twitter Profile to maximize followers. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either!

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Social Networking Communities Are Migrant Communities

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Social networking communities are migrant communities. Then in June 2008 I launched the @ NonprofitOrgs profile on Twitter.

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Facebook Profiles and Pages and Groups, oh my!

Wild Apricot

If questions from our readers are any indication, there’s still a lot of confusion about the differences between Facebook’s Profiles, Fan Pages, and Groups — and which of these might best suit a nonprofit’s social-networking plan. Let’s take a closer look. And the two main tools.( read more ).

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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About GuideStar, Network for Good and Social Media Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

All 501c3’s in the United States have profiles on GuideStar. Network for Good uses the GuideStar database to distribute online donations made on their website and on their partner websites. Network for Good has partnered with Give a Tweet , Change.org , Razoo and Facebook Causes (just to name a few!).

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Lame spams of the day: confirmation from [insert social network name]

Robert Weiner

In the past 2 days I've received spams in the form of confirmations from MySpace, Habbo, Tagged, and Foursquare. Sure you're ready to let go of your friends, music, and that profile design you spent so much time creating? Sure you're ready to let go of your friends, music, and that profile design you spent so much time creating?

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