Linkedin has launched Linkedin Nonprofit Solutions under its Linkedin for Good brand, offering discounted products for nonprofits. Even better, the staff are asking good questions of the nonprofit community. I spoke with Bryan Breckenridge, who is heading up LInkedin Nonprofit Solutions and Connie Chan Wang of Linkedin for Good, about the new offerings for nonprofits, and where they see the program heading.

To create a great online fundraising campaign, combine the principles of community organizing with fundamental social media principles. The mashup will guide your campaign strategy and map. Presentation includes a slide show of essential elements of social media fundraising, and uses 2009 as a case study.

If you take the idea of true organizational transparency, and combine it with stakeholder inclusion, then you get a new type of organization: the Open Source Organization. How can social media increase clarity, transparency and inclusionary decision-making? One organization, PresenTense, is doing this well.

Blogging IS a Strategy. Organizational blogging should be relevant, targeted and strategic for your organization, and should move your organization closer towards meeting its goals. This post includes a slideshow that illustrates strategic blogging practices, and how to create a blogging strategy for your nonprofit.