Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." There are examples (see below). Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Photo by Feast of Fools. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Read the TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get the Most Out of Flickr " 2. Read up on Flickr and look at different examples by nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Social proof is particularly powerful when famous people are setting the example. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. Adam Braun , the founder of Pencils of Promise , is another example of a founder who is a very effective brand evangelist. Harrison has over 61.5k

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest Guidelines. Beth summarized some of the guidelines Joe shared for using Pinterest: Be useful. I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with. Credit to Flickr user: Aberdeen Proving Ground 10. Navy Imagery 22.

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

We sat down and came up with some general guidelines for engaging with and connecting to people on our new media platforms (more on that in a minute) that help us decide what to respond to personally, and how. For example, questions on Twitter can be added to the FAQs your website. Make it known.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The photo is of the Pacific Ocean at Monterey taken by a Flickr user, Amayu. (No, it wasn't a presentation about Google Wave!). among many other awesome examples & possibilities). One was about Foundation use of social media and how the social media policy and guidelines might help the Trustees use of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Flickr Photo by Iain. Focused Speaking: When it is your time to share your thoughts or ask questions, be clear, concise, relevant and respectful. When being brief, set yourself up with “I have one point to make about XYZ.” Try now to provide more details or examples than are necessary or speak longer than necessary.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Review guidelines, like how people can participate (i.e. Build rapport by posting your photo while you introduce yourself. If you know them, use people's names, and include them in examples when appropriate. Arrive early so you can welcome folks. Your first slide should let people know that the meeting will be starting shortly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. For example, the MomsRising food blog carnival was part of a larger campaign that included coalition partners Pew, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and PreventObesity.net as well as other child advocates and nutritional experts. Lesson #3: Ask partners and allies for help in disseminating your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. As Britt notes in her live blogging guidelines: The main goal of your posts is to provide information about the Projects that voters can refer to when it comes time to cast their ballot since they won't be able to attend all of the sessions. see example below) The NetSquared conference tag is n2y2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. An example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

On the serious side, I wish there were some clear guidelines about what exactly is fair use in the nonprofit space. There are amazing photos in flickr and wonderful music in ccmixter.org. Specifically, since the mashup uses clips from a copyrighted Frank Capra film, is this a copyright violation or an example of fair use ?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Let me give you an example. If staff start blogging, posting videos and photos, etc., And on the marketing and tracking side, "rogue" blogs, YouTube channels, and Flickr pools that aren't clearly identified can become an annoyance as staff try to get a handle on institutional impact on the Web. On the Web, this is not so clear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

More Flickr Photos here. Gave an example of Feet First: Bought a chicken suit and you had to help the chicken cross the road. You can do something to help donor give with their head - for example Donors Choose. Does your organization give you any guidelines to your writers? Every local news station showed up.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

and American Pediatric Association guidelines to push kids away from computer screens and out into the world. For example, when you visit the Ontario Science Centre, you can record your own stop motion animation, which you can then access on the web at home. Kids want recordings of themselves performing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Flickr Photo by drachenspinne. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 7=Weekly: A series of blog posts, event photos, updates to your web site. Think text and video and photos and powerpoint. 1=Daily: Tweets, Facebook updates, responses to comments. 4. Variety Is Important.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Set up Policies and Guidelines for Data Entry. For example, if you use titles in your addressee or salutations, confirm that titles are required fields for your Web forms. If your front desk is accepting donations and memberships, make sure they have the training and guidelines to enter data accurately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

Flickr Photo by Star Dust. Approaches and tools: What are the basic guidelines for designing and using data and information visualizations? Exciting examples: What are some great examples from nonprofits? Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

At first glance, the site attracts people interested in using it for non-work interests, such as wedding planning, decorating, scrapbooking, and family photos, but brands and nonprofit professionals are also using it to curate information related to professional and organizational topics in a visually pleasing way. Source: Elad Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Flickr: flickr.com/humanrights. WITNESS currently utilizes the following social media tools: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and “Video for Change” (blog). A good example is witness.org/spring2010. Eventually, WITNESS had to moderate the comments by approving comments that followed our stated guidelines on our channel.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

For example, we use MailChimp to automate email workflows, list population from contact forms, as well as scheduling emails in advance. It’s not a sexy topic, but structuring your ideas is what constrains our thoughts to adherable guidelines. This is what makes structure such a critical component of any content marketing process.

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