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The Fine Line Between Personal and Personality: Is Being A Human Unprofessional?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm sure many nonprofits (and foundations) who enter into the waters of social media for the first time feel this nervousness and perhaps fear. Here's a new fear: Reputation for accuracy, quality, and professionalism will be damaged if the organizations shows its human side. Tags: change management. This morning was the big day!

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was asked to facilitate a session on the question, "Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?". In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples.

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How does your nonprofit work with crowds? Crowdsourcing Week on Beth's Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The effective use of social media tools is like a double espresso shot to your regular coffee. Nonprofits that have built their network can use social media tools to crowdsource ideas for projects at an amazingly fast pace. Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form.

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Two Tagging Projects that Make Sense

Museum 2.0

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. But I do it because it's useful to me as an organizational tool.

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Interview: Kivi Leroux Miller, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide

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I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! It’s like they just want to quietly blend in, when what they really need to do with their marketing is stand out! Tags: interview marketing best practice fundraising storytelling.

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What do Digital Touch and Yellow Cling Peaches Have in Common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Not five minutes after I mentioned on my Facebook status how much I love California Farmers' Markets and posted some of the photos, then I got tagged in a photo by a friend who is doing a little network weaving if his Facebook friends feeds. Just blend it in with the other media you make. Leave comments on those people's blogs.

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Tips for YouTube and Viral Videos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right after Thanksgiving, TechCrunch published a guest post called " The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos " which unleashed a record 491 comments because it described some unethical practices. Ask Your Community to Promote Your Video on Social Media Sites. There was also a follow up post here.

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