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5 Tips for Creating Shareable Content Your Audience Will Love

Media Cause

Stay up to date with trends in design and social media trends , and learn how to integrate those elements into your content while staying true to your brand guidelines. However, people are more likely to receive your message if you treat your content like a conversation vs. a memo, itinerary, or report. Humans are drawn to human faces.

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New on SSIR: You can has memesez?

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or below. Whether it’s “Call Me Maybe,” “Sh*t People Say,” or any other meme that comes along, here are three guidelines you can use to decide when and how to get your nonprofit involved in an Internet meme. 3 Guidelines for Nonprofits.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Social Media in the Nonprofit Workplace: Does Your Organization Need A Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. Laying down guidelines makes everyone think they have more control and it helped everyone to feel better.

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A Networked Approach to Social Media Strategy: Strategy and Learning Are Key

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Iavor, "Our role changed to a facilitator of conversations and content around the three key themes rather than a creator of messaging and materials." Guidelines or best practices that are flexible are important. This a terrific example of in working in networked way. Qui Diaz, Live United: A Big Target.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" We have to change the framing of this conversation. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" Me: "Sort of." and my emphatic response is YES.

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

Museum 2.0

This week, I've had multiple conversations with colleagues in the arts, symphonies, and urban planning about the fear professionals have about "losing control" when opening up new opportunities for people to participate. We have to change the framing of this conversation. With no further ado, enjoy this post. Me: "Sort of."