Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

When you are hosting the actual meeting, share the guidelines about “slowest pace sets the pace for the group and the activity is not a race.” As noted earlier, being the meeting with sharing your guidelines, most importantly about pacing and inclusivity. Participants can move around inside the meeting room or stand and stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2011

Structurally, a social media policy has two sections: (1) Guidelines: This section should be one or pages that summarizes how your organization can be more effective at using social media. It should lay out parameters around organizational and personal use. See Ford Social Media Guidelines for an example. (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

It is also important to consider the ethical guidelines for designing chatbots. And while it is great to have templates and authoring platforms out there that help nonprofits deploy bots, it is also important to remember that a bot interfacing with your stakeholders should also embrace your organization’s brand personality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Do you or your organization have formal guidelines for “ spotting the awesome ” like Upwell (see below) or is it more of ”we know it when we see it?” ” UpWell Content Curation Guidelines - The Mobilisation Lab. .” I love that phrase coined by my friends at Upwell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. 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

MARCH 8, 2010

ASHA (nonprofit) social media guidelines. Intel Social Media Guidelines. Laural Papworth: 40 Social Media Policy Links 40 Guidelines for web 2.0. Blog Council Disclosure Best Practices Kit. IBM Social Computing Policy. Charlene Li's Wiki of social Media Policies. MindMap of Social Networking Policy Discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Easy to be “the only person doing social” – no. Your budget is EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Like many of you, when Facebook unveiled the new brand page guidelines – I was stressed out. With a big training project in the Middle East less than a week away, I was short on time. And, if you’re photoshop and graphically challenged, making the switch to the new brand page format could cause a double whammy of panic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Recently, I got into a discussion with several other nonprofit tech consultants about guidelines for nonprofits to embrace a mobile strategy and specifically what to recommend. Apps, Responsive Design, or Both: Some Important Guidelines for Going Mobile for Nonprofitrs – Guest Post by Heidi Massey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2009

It goes on to lay out some guidelines for personal use if the employee or volunteer chooses to self-identify their affiliation with the Red Cross. It isn't a command and control policy, it's encouraging, provides a lot of useful tips/steps, and is also realistic about the time commitment involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

User or community guidelines are important. Guidelines should be articulated to participants in community guidelines. (Information shared behind this password protected area should not be shared with the mainstream media.). If community guidelines are formally articulated, they need to be enforced.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2020

If your organization has gotten hit hard by the COVID crisis by the double whammy of skyrocketing demand from people in need and layoffs due to social distancing guidelines, and your employees are facing devastating challenges, your nonprofit can set up and fundraise for a Coronavirus relief fund for nonprofit employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Essentially, these new standards and guidelines will move us from counting to assessing the value of our social media efforts. What types of guidelines for measurement do you think should be standardized for nonprofits and those using social media for social good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

Check out these great books and resources: Measuring and Improving Social Impacts and The Impact Investor ; plus the ANDE Report , the Social Impact Investment Taskforce , the Measuring Impact Guidelines , the Good Analyst , the SROI Network , the GRI guidelines , the IRIS Guide , and for a comprehensive list of tools and methods – TRASI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

The work style comes from developing social media guidelines/policy ) Learning Culture. To create your social media guidelines, examine the worst possible scenario, ask what if questions, wallow in all your fears, etc. Culture of learning through making mistakes or taking calculated risks, not a Martha Stewart culture of perfection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

No matter how important you think your work is (and I am sure you are doing amazing things for others in the world), your organization needs to be notable, according to Wikipedia’s guidelines , before it can be Wikipedia-worthy. Click on it (which will turn the star blue) to have your page added to your Watchlist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2010

A few of my favorite tips: Ignore your brand guidelines. Allison Fine and I have contributed some tips from The Networked Nonprofit chapter on fundraising. Over 7,000 people have downloaded the book (you have to fill out a form first) and the reviews have been glowing. Organize a volunteer online thank you corps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The California Association of Nonprofits is seeking feedback from the broader nonprofit community about these proposed guidelines. CalNonprofits anticipates more state and federal policy efforts to emerge as this industry and these practices mature and has released this Open Letter to Crowdfunding Platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Here’s additional points to consider when making accommodations for walking meetings: Begin the meeting with the guidelines about “slowest pace sets the pace for the group and the activity is not a race.” Rolling is a way to make the activity inclusive for everyone because people who use wheelchairs roll, not walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Some additional ways to cut down on employee’s digital stress beyond a device free zone in the workplace: Encourage good email communications guidelines such as brevity, clear asks, and clear subject lines. Set up internal chat lines for sharing photos or brief social updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2016

Fitbit suggests that in addition to the CDC health guideline to fit in 2.5 To help to remember to get up, Fitbit has added Hourly Activity and Stationary Time in the Fitbit app, when paired with its devices. You can now set an hourly activity goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

She wants to donate, she wants to help and she wrote this useful guideline for giving: 1. . ”Thoughts and prayers are good, but I also believe in doing something else – no matter how little. Small actions can make a difference.” ” She knows many of the NGOs on the ground there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The National Sleep Foundation, a champion of sleep science and sleep health for individuals, undertook a comprehensive research study to answer the question of sufficient sleep and provides evidence-based guidelines on how much sleep you really need at each age. Drum roll, please… Adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

One of the issues that they are thinking about as related to strategy (and policy guidelines) is the Personal VS Organizational. Also, the decisions need to reflect internal discussions around philosophy, policy and guidelines for social media use. It's a common area of discussion for nonprofits, foundations, and corporations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Develop your own guidelines about being “strategically unproductive” – that is taking a break from the information fire house. Be serious about getting your down time – whether vacation or taking a break. This how you not only replenish your energy, but also remain creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

In all fairness, in the contest guidelines , it doesn't say that this technique is a violation of the contest rules. This points out that contests really need clear guidelines and rules to ensure a level playing field for all participants. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

They also have some specific examples about how to present the branding for the United Way on Twitter and have incorporated Twitter into their social media policy guidelines. (See I know of about 30 chapters that have adopted it, but haven't heard any amazing success stories. With a network, using #hashtags can potentially have great impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2012

In accordance with FTC guidelines, full disclosure will be necessary when writing about the printer, and we ask that you provide your honest opinion of it. A couple of weeks, a PR agency working for Dell approached me with an offer that I was going to refuse: We will give a Dell 1355cnw Multifunction Color Printer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Follow the guidelines. Be clear and concise in your session description. Convey the topic and what people will learn if they attend your session. Be mindful of character limit (250, including spaces). Complete every step in the online system and meet the submission deadline of November 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In order to scale, nonprofits will need to develop a social media policy as well as operational guidelines. The report suggests that in order to scale this engagement, social media needs to be part of everyone's job, making the argument that a few minutes each day spent by every employee adds up to a wealth of customer touch points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

They understand the brand’s mission and value and they know your issues better than anyone else. Your CEO already understands your brand guidelines and will most likely operate within it. Your leader as a champion and personal brand for your organization is going to have less risk than external volunteers or champions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2010

That’s why they’re taking a hard line on their App Store Review Guidelines (see section 21 – by only allowing SMS or HTML donations) and preventing any in-app donations, altogether — whether it is donating through the app itself or paying the app fee as a donation to the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

To create your social media guidelines, examine the worst possible scenario, ask what if questions, wallow in all your fears, etc. Then figure out a way to get that negative force on your side. In short, "Dream your worst nightmare and invest in it.". I think this is the key to adoption and social media success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Last week, he wrote a post about some suggested security guidelines, also noting that only four out of 92 organizations affected had disclosed it to their subscribers. Allan Benamer reported on the Security breach at Convio on November 4. Today, TechSoup alerted it's email subscriber. Go here to read. Go here to ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

It does help to have a general philosophy and guidelines might help. "If you think about knowledge or wisdom coming from looking at information and experiences from a certain perspective, then I think we need to see some of that human side to really appreciate that perspective and to trust it – if that makes sense."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

The guidelines are no live tweeting of confidential information! . If you want to follow along, we're using the #networkf tag on Twitter. What's nice to see is that everyone is much more comfortable with live tweeting, being more transparent.

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