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Non-Profit Leaders as Personal Brands

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In truth, however, your ability to effectively blend the two turns on how you frame your role within your non-profit organization. Second, refining your personal brand will force you to find your own voice and align it with the core values of the non-profit. Click to See Larger Image.

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Another "From Me To We" Panel Tool: Text The Mob

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But what happens when you go into the real world and attend conferences? He wrote about the shift from Me to We and how conference panels are really important manifestation of this: Speakers, Panelists, and Moderators must monitor back channel. after my experience at the London Global Voices Summit.

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck Consulting. And each of us explained it a little differently. How cool is that?

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” I was taken aback by his forceful tone of voice. I responded with how do you know that they aren’t already connecting on LinkedIN and quoted Clay Shirky, ”If you are concerned about loosing control, stop – you’ve already lost control.” I want to control the communication between staff and board.”

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can 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. It is not a "CEO" blog where she writes daily, but a blog that includes the voices of NTEN staff and members.

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). At the 2008 conference, I attended a session presented by Farra Trompeter of Big Duck. And each of us explained it a little differently. An example of our early “brand&# circa 2005. How cool is that?

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