Link Roundup 11/26

If you follow @giipucsc on Twitter (and you should!) you know that we link to about a dozen fascinating articles each day relating to subjects like Social Enterprise, Nonprofits, Nonprofit Tech, and Social Media. The smart social media manager will know how to repurpose data.

A four-part systematic strategy to child safety: advocating for children in the courts, supporting nurturing families, increasing personal safety and backing the difficult process of recovering from violence.

This is how communities protect children. http://hub.am/17Q94yq pic.twitter.com/PzZEaRhgtW

Here are a dozen takeaways from the Content Marketing Institute's report on nonprofit marketing.

Some good stuff and info about digital storytelling tools in this deck by the always fabulous Debra Askanase. Read more about the training she did on this here. Digital Storytelling Tools for Nonprofit Organizations from Community Organizer 2.0 Related PostsDigital...

I never understood the point of thank-you letters. My mom would insist. " You've got to send a thank-you letter!" Three weeks after my birthday: " Have you written your thank-you letter yet?" Four weeks after my birthday: " You're grounded if you haven't sent that letter by this afternoon."

We are thrilled to announce that Open Heart has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. So many of you passionately supported this project and we're so excited to bring the film, and awareness about Rheumatic Heart Disease to the world stage.

As the dust settles on another Global Entrepreneurship Week, the UK social enterprise community is reflecting on whether 2013 will mark a real turning point in public awareness of the social economy. The week began with an event co-hosted by the Centre for Entrepreneurs, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and UnLtd ( full disclosure: I am currently a senior researcher at UnLtd).

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Social Enterprise Network's daily digest. Our space to tell you the latest news, advice and analysis from the sector. * On the network today, Dan Morrison, former chief executive and founder of Citizen Effect, discusses the five stages of grief for a failed social entrepreneur and how to recover your motivation and start again.

What should we expect from the Ontario social enterprise (SE) space in 2014? I'm predicting the taste of our SE dish should be a good one, thanks to several key new ingredients in this year's recipe. Here are two we should be keeping an eye on.

Learn how to install Google Analytics on your website so you can begin collecting actionable data about your website visitors.

Over the past 2 weeks, I've been speaking at a number of conferences on the topic of social media. And I'm noticing something troubling. People think they have "handled social media" because they have one person in their office who has been assigned to "figuring it out."

"Let me tell you about..." vs "I want pink balloons at my funeral." If you were reading a fundraising appeal, which of the two sentences above would capture your imagination and make you want to read further? The first, "Let me tell you about," is a standard story lead I've seen in many a fundraising appeal and grant proposals.

Would you like to get more out of your social media marketing campaign? If so, there are some quick changes you can make to your profiles, pages, and activity that can make a big difference in results. Here are 12 simple profile hacks and engagement tips you can apply to increase fans, followers, and traffic to your website.