Robert Weiner

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Separating Personal and Professional Lives on Social Media

Robert Weiner

Andrew Heller discussed the risks of oversharing in his NTEN blog post Social Media and Privacy: Best Practices for Managing Your Personal and Professional Identities. " He provides an extensive list of best practices and privacy options for using social media. " Tags: Social Media.

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Social Media and College Admissions

Robert Weiner

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has just published Social Media and College Admissions: The First Longitudinal Study by Eric Mattson and Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D. The study compares adoption of social media between 2007 and 2008 by the admissions offices of all four-year accredited institutions in the United States.

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Schools using social media but not for fundraising

Robert Weiner

Peer-to-peer class campaigns (at least for recent classes) seem like a natural for social media, and I expect we'll start seeing them. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Social Media. I spent the last 3 days at the CASE District VII conference, for schools in AZ, CA, Guam, HI, NV, and UT.

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Fundraising Via Social Media: Pros and Cons

Robert Weiner

Hildy Gottlieb takes the con side in her post Avoiding the Siren’s Song of Social Media Fundraising , arguing that these efforts are counterproductive: These efforts tell donors, “You will have the satisfaction of knowing you helped.” It all adds up, but the use of social media doesn’t have to kill the broader efforts.

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Develop Your Social Media Strategy with NTEN

Robert Weiner

What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format. They've gathered a group of nonprofit social media experts to help you devise a solid organizational strategy and learn the secrets of a variety of social media tools.

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Online Alumni Communities in the Age of Social Media

Robert Weiner

The topic of closed alumni communities versus social media is on the minds of a lot of university staff, so I'm posting this along with my response. I'd like to hear from anyone who is using the social networking function of Blackbaud Net Community. Tags: Alumni Relations Education Social Media Alumni.

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We Are Media: An NTEN Workshop on Social Media

Robert Weiner

As part of its We Are Media program, NTEN is offering a 2-day training in San Francisco on how nonprofits can use social media. They describe it as follows: This two-day, intensive workshop will immerse you in the world of social media and nonprofits.