LinkedIn has grown to over one billion members from 200 nations worldwide. Launched in 2003, almost half of that development has occurred over the past 5 years. LinkedIn is a perfect platform for nonprofit professionals to develop their private model and curate a web based profile for present and future employers, funders, and sponsors.
Certifications are a key function of LinkedIn Profiles and beneath is a tutorial on easy methods to add certificates supplied by Nonprofit Tech for Good to your LinkedIn Profile. There are few methods to maximizing how certificates seem in your profile and within the LinkedIn Dwelling feed.
1) Add your certificates to your LinkedIn Profile.
To start, go to your profile > Add profile part > Beneficial > Add licenses & certifications:
Enter the title of your certificates after which comply with Nonprofit Tech for Good on LinkedIn to make sure that Nonprofit Tech for Good will be discovered within the “Issuing group” area.
The difficulty date will be discovered in your certificates and know that certificates issued by Nonprofit Tech for Good don’t expire, so you’ll be able to go away the expiration date area clean.
Your Credential ID can be discovered in your certificates and the Credential URL (see instance) was supplied while you accomplished the certificates program and your claimed your certificates.
Subsequent, add “Expertise” related to the certificates program (Social Media Advertising, Fundraising, Nonprofit Expertise, Digital Technique, and Content material Technique, and so forth.) after which “Save.”
Your certificates then seems in your profile with a direct hyperlink to your certificates hosted on Nonprofit Tech for Good.
It’s price noting you can additionally add a thumbnail to your certificates below the “Media” possibility [after Skills], however attributable to picture dimension constrictions, your certificates thumbnail can be cropped. Add your certificates in picture format [right-click to download from your Credential URL] and resolve whether or not you want your certificates listed on LinkedIn with or with out the thumbnail.
Lastly, in case you have taken each certificates applications supplied by Nonprofit Tech for Good, you’ll be able to add each to your LinkedIn Profile.
2) Share your certificates along with your community on LinkedIn.
After you “Save” your certification to your profile, LinkedIn prompts you to share your new certification along with your community. Nonprofit Tech for Good recommends that you simply “Skip” this feature and as an alternative share your new certification immediately from the house feed. The default sharing possibility prompted by LinkedIn solely means that you can share your certificates as a “Celebration” which doesn’t assist you to add your certificates in picture format. Once you publish immediately from the house feed, nevertheless, you’ll be able to add your certificates in picture format which tends to obtain extra engagement than celebration posts and graphics.
It’s price noting you can additionally publish your new certificates as a “Celebration” from the house feed, however while you add your certificates in picture format to the celebration picture area, it’s cropped when shared. To keep away from cropping, merely add and publish your certificates as a picture publish.
Our Certificates in Social Media Advertising & Fundraising program covers the basics of social media advertising and marketing and fundraising to your nonprofit. Individuals will learn to create a social media technique, easy methods to craft a content material advertising and marketing plan, and present greatest practices for utilizing social media for group engagement and fundraising.
This system requires the completion of three webinars and prices a complete of $100 USD. You may attend the webinars reside or view the recordings. Be taught extra & register!
