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Date	November 18, 2009
Cost	Free
	Refining your profile and your organization’s profile are only the first step in using LinkedIn to build your nonprofit. If used to its full extent, LinkedIn can source donors, prospective board members and volunteers, showcase your organization’s and take you into donor markets not otherwise tapped. The door is there, for those who have the key. Optimize your private profile Create a compelling organization profile Join and participate in industry and other peer groups effectively Arrange to meet people you do not know, using connections: donors: board members, volunteers Add blogs, tweets, advertising and presentations to your profile Ask questions to your peer group Become an expert answerer For all of us involved with nonprofits, LinkedIn enhances our continual networking, and can feed our donor pipeline. If you are a novice, come listen carefully. If you are a frequent user, come learn more. If you are anywhere in-between, get ready to jumpstart your LinkedIn presence. Caution: “ah-ha” moments have been reported from this FREE webinar. "Marc does a great job of making the complex simple and understandable for non-techies and drives home the basics of effectively using LinkedIn and other social networking for business. Among lessons learned: daily use and maintenance much like exercise or other habits, joining affinity groups for news and exposure, understanding and using apps." Peter J. Flierl, MSW, President of FBT Worldwide "Marc Halpert is an engaging, friendly speaker who has mastered LinkedIn and its various nuances. It is well worth the effort to sign up for this webinar." Larry Wentz President at Wentz Consulting LLC
	Who Should Attend? Nonprofit staff and management, especially those in these positions: Anyone in marketing, communications and public relations Fundraising Public relations Even executive directors
Instructor	Marc W. Halpert, Managing Partner, Your Best Interest LLC Marc W. Halpert is Managing Partner, Your Best Interest LLC and its divisions: e-giving and connect2collaborate. Since leaving the corporate world in 2001, Halpert has started two companies offering paperless electronic payment services to optimize the cash flow of and speed collections to: retailers, particularly small- and mid-sized businesses (Your Best Interest LLC) professional and membership groups, and not-for-profit organizations (e-giving). In his latest business, Connect2Collaborate, Halpert uses his skills in networking and his LinkedIn evangelism to train and coach others. Connect2Collaborate gives business people with whom he connects the opportunity to become clients of his customized cash flow and payment services. Everyone benefits simultaneously: improved business cash flow and new business collaboration. He has been recognized for client service and is a frequent speaker at national, regional, and local conferences for small businesses and nonprofits. He has also authored articles on innovations in cash flow technologies, and on LinkedIn as a powerful branding power. He serves as an instructor at the University of Phoenix’s Fairfield County on-ground campus, where he teaches finance, management, and business ethics. He volunteers as a counselor at the award-winning Norwalk, CT chapter of SCORE where he provides expertise in e-commerce, nonprofits, and social media. He also teaches LinkedIn to job-seekers at Connect to Care at Westchester Jewish Community Services in Westchester County, NY. Halpert holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Virginia and his MBA in International Business from George Washington University.