Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Mindful News Consumption Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interestingly enough, almost everyone in this workshop had already put themselves on a “news diet.” She also taken off all breaking news alerts and only consumes news from a handful of vetted sources. She is also very mindful while reading the news to monitor her reactions and emotions. The solution?

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The Perils of Fake News, Coordinated Misinformation, and Social Media Addiction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There have been many news articles recently about social media for evil: How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and even Instagram have been abused for coordinated misinformation paid social media or advertising to influence our political system. Find out what funders are doing to fight it in this upcoming Media Impact Funders webinar series.

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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Introducing the Knight News Challenge Garage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via colleague Susan Mernit. Inspired by TechStars and YCombinator , the Garage creates a ( drupal platform) community where current and potential applications for funding can enter their ideas, share comments and peer review, and request mentor support to improve their application before they submit it.

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9 Tips for Nonprofits To Boost Resilience During A Pandemic

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The public health advice is to social distance, but we also need to mental distance from news and discussion about the virus. You simply can’t obsess about every news report or the worst possible outcomes. I put myself on a news diet by only consuming one-hour of news a day to be informed enough to keep my family safe.

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Nancy Schwartz, Guest Post: Don't Even THINK about Social Media until Your Web Site and E-news Are Working Well

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So I emailed requesting to be put on the e-news list (didn't see where to subscribe online). But there's no e-news! e-news vs. Facebook fan page). NOTE: Here are some brief guides to strengthening your Web site and e-news. The center is more than an hour away from the NY metro area, so most visitors have to plan ahead.

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Why Empathy is the Key to Outstanding Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” Practicing Empathetic Leadership in the Nonprofit Workplace Empathy isn’t always a hardwired skill, but the good news is that with practice we can develop itHere are a few examples of what this looks like in practice in the nonprofit workplace.: Now, you might be wondering, “how do we practice empathy in our leadership styles?”