Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Calderoni explains that leaders must put character at the center of everything they do, and he explains that company culture is distinct from company character. Company character is the integrity, respect, and fortitude residing at the core of your culture. Calderoni : Historically, companies and the media focused on culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

The best way to start prioritizing DEI initiatives is by taking steps to ingrain these concepts into your organization’s culture. When these concepts are ingrained in your organization’s culture, you’ll find that inclusion and prioritization of equity will trickle into every decision you make. Watch the Culture Start Shifting.

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JUNE 6, 2022

And this year the theme is “Only One Earth,” highlighting the need for us all to live sustainably and in harmony with nature by making transformative changes in our policies and our choices. And how can we accurately measure the carbon reduction that results from these projects?”.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York. These acts mimic the standard set by the European Union with GDPR and many of the policies will sound familiar. The New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Security act and the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

One of my favorite things about writing a blog, are the conversations in the comments and sidebars (private email conversation). Sam's story illustrates the pressing need for culture change within nonprofits or as colleague, Allison Fine , puts it "organizational silos prevent people from empowering their edge." .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. I blogged about it , and you offered several good pointers on what should be considered in constructing it. Want to go straight to the policy? Why create an advocacy policy? Here it is.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Evaluating a Culture. Nonprofits Struggle to Implement Diversity Measures, Survey Finds. Cultural Organizing Needed for Equity: A Framework of Belonging. Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Policy Template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

Leaders identified big-picture challenges like technology, which makes it harder to separate work and home, and organizational change as top contributors to stress while employees were focused on concerns like low pay, unclear job expectations and company culture. Long Hours Culture Is Not Productive. Why are we doing this?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2021

Create teams that are small and where roles are loosely defined, and policies are flexible. That’s not our culture. I measure progress in days and weeks, not months and quarters. Encourage employees to identify and tackle improvement opportunities. Treat every individual and role as indispensable to collective success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day. There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Community organizing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Create teams that are small and where roles are loosely defined, and policies are flexible. That’s not our culture. I measure progress in days and weeks, not months and quarters. Encourage employees to identify and tackle improvement opportunities. Treat every individual and role as indispensable to collective success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Create teams that are small and where roles are loosely defined, and policies are flexible. That’s not our culture. I measure progress in days and weeks, not months and quarters. Encourage employees to identify and tackle improvement opportunities. Treat every individual and role as indispensable to collective success.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 9, 2016

Originally, as it may be the first time an organization is encountering these challenges; it may seem as if this Wild West gunslinger policy of creating on the go is advantageous or even agile. This can go a long way in establishing a learning culture, and incentivizing employees to continue down the path with the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. These techniques are often applied to measuring social media and networks and making sense of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

I thought the points about measurement were right on and applies to other types of nonprofits. But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture. I also offer some pointers around developing a social media policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2017

She was motivated by both an interest to improve her skills leading a team and to better understand her organization’s work culture. The committee also developed a policy for healthy food at meetings and breaks. The agency measure success based on biometric screenings which helps them secure an annual budget from their health insurer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. Participants reviewed the social media policy from TNT , which has been translated into Spanish, to see how it could be adapted for their regional network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

” It requires more than having a social media policy in place, although that is the first step no doubt. Record and measure. .” It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, “What if we get a negative comment? It involves discussions and buy-in from stakeholders. Crisis situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

As Jeremiah Owyang noted in a post the other day, measurement of social media is key because when marketing dollars are stretched, marketers are under pressure to prove their programs. With social media being largely experimental, it is imperative to measure quickly and make real time course corrections and to figure out what is working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

In this sound bite culture, social justice organizations must carve out nuanced positions on complex social issues, from racial and gender equity to immigration reform. As rapid demographic shifts powerfully reshape the cultural and political landscape of California, they also give rise to anxieties that may render immigrants vulnerable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Not every nonprofit will go through the levels at the same pace due to organizational culture, capacity, or communication objectives, program design and target audiences. Organizations in this category also need to focus on using more sophisticated measurement techniques , tools, and processes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Who’s read a blog post about it? What do you measure every day, week, month, year? It is less about the number of people to retweet or like or blog. I agree that every organization, city, region, and culture have differences that make us unique. Have you heard the number 350 parts per million? Slacktivism.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Although it can be tempting to measure everything, it is best to focus on those key indicators relevant to an organization’s goal or areas where improvement is needed and not get bogged down by too much information. Even text can be measured with text analysis tools that can provide statistics on keywords and gauge sentiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Caution: No turtles were harmed in the making of this blog. And if it’s not broke and it boosts employee morale and productivity, why not make it company policy? Corporate Culture. Do you have a culture club that organizes team-building activities and social events? After all, if it’s not broke, why fix it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

One was about Foundation use of social media and how the social media policy and guidelines might help the Trustees use of social media. (The board spans several generations and we had a range around the table of people new to social media and those who have been early adopters.). More about that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Betsy Woods Last month, shortly after Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith was published, there was discussion on nonprofit blogs about how to apply some of the principles to a nonprofit context. Our organization has a culture of being able to try new things in low risk experiments. Yes, we do.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Regrettably, most nonprofits have limited cyber security measures in place. Cindy Leonard has a good list of posts on the topic on her blog here. Beyond tools to monitor your systems and to help secure your networks, policies and procedures are an important part of keeping your organization as secure as possible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Throw out old policies and practices that get in the way of attracting and retaining women. Measure progress. In every sector, form telecommunications to utilities, companies with no gender balance on the board have lower-than-average market capitalization; those with three or more female board members exceed the average.

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