BoardAssist

MAY 20, 2014

Does your organization have a sound, carefully managed and board-approved Investment Policy Statement? We hope you enjoy this week’s guest post and would like to thank Madelyn for her thoughtful advice! 1) Do you have a well thought out Investment Policy Statement, approved by the board?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? The Webinar was mostly focused on the privacy concerns and the Human Resources side of Internet/Social Media Policies. Beth: Do you have a social media policy at your foundation?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I'd worked at a DC nonprofit the summer after my junior year that focused on policy work, but that wasn't a fit for me either. A couple months before graduation I went to my religion professor's office hours to ask for advice. My advice: 1. What advice do you have for aspiring organizers? Follow your curiosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

To get more insights, we look at the advice from Master Networker Heidi Roizen , profiled in the popular 2000 Harvard Business School case study about professional networking. ” Everyone has to set their own limits or a connection policy (and disconnection policy). Do you have an intentional connection policy?

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Qgiv

MARCH 15, 2022

If you need tips on where to begin, read on for our advice for creating and growing your donor base from scratch. Ask coworkers (if company policy allows you to ask for donations), family, and friends to donate to your nonprofit. Then you’re likely working on growing your donor base. But who do you ask to contribute to your cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

There are no official rules, although there is some great advice in the O'Reilly Twitter Book on this topic for corporate examples. Each account is in the person's name, but they are clearly identified with the organization both in a customized Twitter profile image and in the 160 character bio.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? A good social media policy provides clear guidelines on what staff should do when posting and interacting with constituents, volunteers, and donors. Got social media tips or advice?

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Thanks for the advice Lincoln! . This is an easy program that your nonprofit can take part in to help raise its profile and reach a wider audience. You need to agree to Google’s non-discrimination policies and its terms to how the grant will be received and used. Is Your Nonprofit using Google’s Free AdWords Grant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

A few months back, I wrote about a Facebook campaign to reinstate Ranger Rick's Facebook profile. Soon after it happened, Danielle Brigida, an internet marketing staff person for the NWF who set up the profile wrote in an article: Ranger Rick's expulsion has sparked much debate on how Facebook handles. profile has.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

They used discussion thread to discuss the issue: This brings me Tony Karrer who has several posts about networking on LinkedIn (and Twitter and Facebook) and friending policies: I used to heed the advice that you should only connect with people who you know pretty well. And that's the way I've operated.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Earlier this year, BoardSource launched Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices , which is a comprehensive scan of current nonprofit board practices, policies, and performance. Leading with Intent explores why that is, and — more importantly — what we can do about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

But it also gave me an idea for a small group exercise or even an icebreaker where you might have people take a quiz or have the technographic profiles listed on butchblock sheets on the wall and have people stand in front of it. Or you could break into small groups based on the technographic profile. tags: nptech youth ).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

So what's the secret to maintaining a popular Facebook profile or Twitter account? A good social media policy provides clear guidelines on what staff should do when posting and interacting with constituents, volunteers, and donors. Got social media tips or advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Add to this the formal trainings, social media policy guidelines, and the ability for local united ways to cross pollinate, remix, and implement their local campaigns - and you have a networked approach to a social media strategy. My personal profile is my work identity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

The advice for marketers looking to embark on a Web 2.0 Knowing what others say and think about you is the best and most effective way to improve your profile, positioning, price without needing to hire any expensive marketing consultant. Allison Fine and Lucy Bernholz take a foundation's investment policies to task. Ice Rocket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

While organizational adoption of social media tools for external communications strategies is becoming more common, not to mention lots of practical advice such as this recent white paper: The Revolution will be Socialized and the many how-to primers for nonprofits like this one. policies and usage guidelines." about Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

They are socially responsible and environmentally responsible companies, but are in need of some additional assistance, mostly strategic advice, that helps them scale to the next level. I think where we get our competitive advantage is that the caliber of our advisors is far and above any kind of advice that you find out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

" She points to an interesting web widget from SunLight Labs which adds mini-profiles with links to Member of Congress to your blog or web page when you mouseover the link. executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. But the best advice is start small and spider out. It is important to do this type of listening as a prelude to setting up your own profile or placing videos on YouTube - and as an going part of your social media strategy. Social networks.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Carie Lewis , internet marketing manager at HSUS, explains how the nonprofit organization pitched the low cost campaign and shares advice to other nonprofits looking to do the same. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. Almost free.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2008

Carie Lewis , internet marketing manager at HSUS, explains how the nonprofit organization pitched the low cost campaign and shares advice to other nonprofits looking to do the same. The people’s choice winner (chosen by an online poll) was also featured on our website and social networking profiles. Almost free.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

It’s important to recognize that you will not recruit millions of new people to your organization and raise tons of money just because you have a profile on Facebook, or because your staff Twitters. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. The truth is, Web 2.0 is a buzzword. so important? perspective as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

t allow photography during concerts, so it would work against our own policy to feature fan photos taken during concerts (which, as you can imagine, would be the majority of fan entries). ve noticed many of these youngsters are music students and proudly so (there are many that have profile photos with their instruments). Just explore!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Although you can find some exclusive advice from her on our blog as well, which we’ll link to if you’re interested in learning that. ” It’s also possible that the donor made you a beneficiary of a retirement plan or a life-insurance policy. And they can even gift you an insurance policy that they no longer need.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2018

We send out action alerts, blog passionately, share petitions on Facebook and upload videos highlighting the stakes involved in our various policy fights, all intended to spark people to take action. From policy language to video how-to’s, your organization should prepare content before you need it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Have an open door policy 66. Dig deep within your organization for ideas on how to improve processes, policies and procedures 67. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Dont interrupt 63. Ask questions to clarify 64. Dont delay tough conversations 65. Do annual written performance appraisals 68.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

Finally, you may discover that the mistake happened because policies, procedures or your assignment instructions were confusing or unclear. Chances are he has already figured this out. If not, teach him what he needs to do differently to avoid the mistake from reoccurring. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

But 36% discovered them through a friend’s profile. They also suggest: make it personal, using your real voice; don’t reprint press releases or other web stories; be concise (advice I am not following here ). As for Facebook Causes, you can see our total raised on our profile page: [link] Please stay in touch!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

If the comment is intentionally harmful, this needs to be reported to the platform, and the offending user needs to be blocked from your organisation’s profile. If online harassment is an ongoing concern, you’ll want to develop policies and procedures to protect your organisation and support your team. To learn how, Hollaback!

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Freshen Up Profiles Update user profiles every couple of days with new stories, interesting facts, new videos, blog entries, photos, etc. Its based on the ideas in the book "Groundswell" and it links to a free tool called the Forrester Groundswell Profile Tool. We need a policy for a multi-site organization!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Here's an instructional video about how they work on Facebook along with some advice from Jeremiah Owyang. (2) Friend policies. Vicky Davis and Judy O'Connell offer educator's perspective on the whole question of friending and friend policies. As Vicky noted on my Facebook profile a while back, I just wonder this, Beth.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

According to UNIFEM's, "Gender Profile-Iraq-Women, War & Peace," : "[M]ore than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide. CODEPINK rejects the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Whole Whale does not offer legal advice. Have supporters change their profile picture. Allowing humanitarian aid to access a conflict zone is a specific policy decision of a government. Whole Whale does not in any way condone, endorse, or recommend illegal or harassing behavior. Use the same hashtag. Send out infographics.

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