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Mastering Social Networking as a Volunteer

Amy Sample Ward

When sharing messages, use LinkedIn’s filtering options for location and job field to refine your recipients list to those more applicable. Mastering social networking as a volunteer. This helps show affiliation but provide a smaller, more intimate and defined group for those looking participate. What do you think?

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

Nonprofit Tech for Good

My last full-time, Monday-through-Friday job was as an outreach director for a small international development organization in San Francisco. Adding social media to that already packed job description just would not have been possible. The successful use of social media requires a significant time investment.

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How Much Time Mobile and Social Media Require

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Small nonprofits that are not in a position to hire a part- or full-time social media manager should limit themselves to one or two social networks and place the highest priority on their website, email communications, and online fundraising campaigns. Feedback (1 hour weekly): To track and report on success.

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Five Creative (and Smart) Uses of Social Media Icons on Nonprofit Homepages

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While writing Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits , I visited over 500 nonprofit homepages looking primarily for links to their social networking communities.

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Nonprofits Value a Facebook Like at $214.81

NetWits

Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. While we were there, Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. The conference was amazing!

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Entrepreneurship is not pretty. Are you sure you’re ready to leave your job for it?

The Next Web

Quitting your job to start a venture is like abandoning a sailing ship in the middle of the ocean looking for adventure, seeking an island sailing on a dinghy. If the following are your reasons for quitting your job to start your own business, then save yourself some grief and look for a better job or stay put. Peer pressure.

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Polywork gets $3.5M to blend professional and social networking

TechCrunch

That’s the premise underpinning Polywork , a new professional social network founded by Lystable/Kalo founder, Peter Johnson. As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as a ‘job for life’ anymore. But, well, a supplementary professional network sounds like a bit of a sideline.