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Don’t Abuse Self-Care at Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. Authentic self-care is a habit for individuals, but also needs to be embedded in the organizational culture so individual staff members don’t pit their own needs against the organization’s mission. There was no accountability to the team.”

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by John K. It’s a reflection of culture and online practice and by understanding the audience you will understand better how they talk to each other. In the past twelve months, they have translated over 60 million words for businesses in every industry sector, including the likes of MTV, World Bank and American Express.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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The Secret Every Successful Nonprofit Leader Knows About Being Productive

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by udithawix. ” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. What is more important is managing your attention and energy. Some workplace cultures in nonprofits encourage this approach.

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Steven Slater & JetBlue Make a Great Case for Open Leadership

NTEN

Flickr: mi.chael If you've engaged any news source this week, you've probably heard about Steven Slater. On it, users have been praising Slater's grand exit, kvetching over the trials of working in the service industry, and overall, bonding over actions they believe are justified. The thing that really stands out on the page? (The

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

industry benchmarks. next, with LOLseals campaign, they made it as easy as possible for people to participate, used the Flickr API to allow people to upload from their website instead of going to Flickr, etc. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. what things need to be measured. success stories.

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Social Media Adoption: The Line Between Individual/Personal and Organizational

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In nonprofit environments, there is less tolerance of "personal professional development" because of a culture of training versus culture of learning. This is why companies allow employees to make personal phone calls, why they underwrite education and training, and invest to create pleasant environments. tool after Web 2.0

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