Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2018

Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. We met internally with the communications team, but then also with Policy and Partnerships. We’re going to be working with departments across the organization to create content, instead of just reporting out from a policy or movement perspective. Miriam Brosseau and Stephanie Corleto share why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

What surprised me though, was the share pair report out exercise, “What are the conversation starters about concerns that your organization needs to have to build a social media policy?&# I was surprised that most of the topics were tactical and how to questions. How has your agency addressed these issues in your social media policy?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Posted engagement policies or intuitive design will do nothing for participation on a new platform without active members modeling the way the tools can be used. Image credit: Flickr muir.ceardach ). As such, Community Managers play to a core element for any shared space: modeling behavior. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Original image from dakiny in Flickr. Sue Ann Reed from Care 2 set up an online petition so we could all send Steve Jobs a message and give Apple a chance to change their policy before we all part ways with our iPhones. Yesterday, I explained why I’ve decided to ditch my iPhone and get an Android. Many were annoyed.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2013

Industry, including e-waste recyclers, refurbishers, environmental auditors, and consultants, as well as policy leaders from many countries globally, will be participating in this event. Industry and policy leaders will share information on the current state of African electronics recycling and refurbishment policy and practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

With campaigning tools readily available, and the economy of the web centered on content and adoption, if passionate individuals work together to create compelling content, achievable and measurable goals, and clear calls to action, they can make an impact – from fundraising to policy change – without an organization being involved.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2012

The proliferation of social media has left many organizations playing catch up with their communications and privacy policies. For people like these, Ross shared the following tips: Read privacy policies of sites and apps : Understand what is required of you as a user and how your information will be used.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. Social media policy - Make sure the organization has a social media policy in place and that it is a positive, encouraging policy and not punitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Flickr Photo by Flower Factor. Talent managers and HR directors must move beyond the development of processes and policies and focus on embedding a culture of learning that can support and nurture talent within their organizations. Effective delivery of content and learning experiences takes both on and offline connection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Advocating for particular policies, likewise, can lead to positive systemic change. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

Flickr: cambodia4kidsorg (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. fellow nptechies about the social media policies she helped develop for. You can read about why and how they developed their policies here. And you can see their policies here. . Members are in bold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. Finally, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2019! I had a great holiday break, although unfortunately I got sick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Flickr Photo by Kris Krug. Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs. I’ve been working on my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , with Aliza Sherman. It goes beyond physical health or a wellness program that focuses on diet, exercise or sleep.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Flickr: Lydia Mann (Note: This is a weekly round-up of NTEN members doing and sharing their nptech awesome. IdeaEncore 's #share topic for us nptechies in October is data backup and archiving policies. Members are in bold. ForumOne 's Chris Wolz wrote a good piece about crowdsourcing for foundations and nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

As ImpactMax writes so beautifully, tying individual stories to overall contextual problems and societal issues can really change policies. Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Flickr photo by Panacheart. Social Policy: Organizing for Social and Economic Justice , vol.28, Guest post by Mary Manuel. Movement: “A collection of persons or groups who come together around a common concern. Typically their mission is to bring about some type of societal change relative to their concern.”

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. If I find a great article on IRS cell phone reimbursement policies, I can clip it straight from the browser into my Operations notebook. That's all it takes. See how easy we are to please? Dropbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2017

Flickr Image – ImageGroup. In large part, this focuses on setting policies and creating structures to support and manage teams. The project, which combined peer learning and mentoring together with an online “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” offered a new and entirely virtual approach to leadership development.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Flickr photo by Sarah and Mike.probably Decisions are tough. Over the course of this intensive workshop, you'll actually design a social media plan that makes sense for your own goals and audiences -- complete with the measures, policies, and tangible benefits that will help you gain the support of your whole organization. >

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. Many told them that sometimes they just need some “creativity time,” that is to go to a museum or walk around. The organization formalized “creativity time” in its employees handbook and established a policy that staff take “creativity time” as half-day per month.

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APRIL 25, 2009

Flickr Photosharing Bootcamp , Sunday, April 26: Micheala is teaching a session on Flickr and related tools. Gobs and Gobs of Data: Strategies for Visualizing and Sharing Policy Content , Tuesday, April 28: Kurt is moderating this panel. Science Fair Booth , Sunday, April 26 3-8 p.m.: We Want Usability!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000. And yes, this is a start up, a for-profit, and nonprofits could never afford many of the perks, like organic fruit in the break room, BaseCamp’s founder writes about the “informal policy” about not having employees over work themselves.

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MARCH 17, 2014

Do you have a donations policy? Why not create a thanking policy? Step Two: Make your Donor Retention more Manageable by Creating a Thanking Policy. Here are some examples of thanking policies: 1. photo cred: Sparklehausen, Flickr Creative Commons. Go here to check it out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. Luke’s, StoryCorps, NPR, and Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Set some ground rules: Set a social media policy for your organization, so it’s clear how to respond to what you’re hearing - and what types of initiatives have internal support. Flickr photo credit: cbcastor by CC Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 That day is already here. engagement is all about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. The conference brings together professionals who working on early learning research, practice, and policy to promote improvement and expansion of services for children ages 0 to 5 in the state. The results are greater than an individual or organization could accomplish alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Charlene also references another important issue - the issue of your friending policies if you are using these tools to support or enhance a professional network. I am also thinking about making my "friending" policies more formal. Flickr: On flickr, I pretty much friend people who request it. Other posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lee Haywood. The moderation is handled by Quora Admins who are not necessarily employees of the company. Their community use policy is also pretty extensive. In addition, follower pull through requests from other networks like Twitter and Facebook occur with questionable privacy policies. Thanks Geoff! ).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

TechSoup: Telework Policies. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons. Image three: Working in slippers courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Find their report here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

to the general public and to policy makers. I placed a more extensive upload of photos from the Social Enterprise World Forum 2008 on my Flickr pages. Even though the legal regime is somewhat different, I found many parallels with social enterprisers here in the United States and around the world.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Flickr Pro. If someone leaves your organization and takes their Flickr account with them, your organization can place a request for new accounts through TechSoup. Policy Patrol Mail Security licenses provide product updates for one year, after which updates may be purchased annually from Policy Patrol at a discounted rate.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2010

Flickr photo: KayCey97007 I find it highly ironic that so much energy has been spent debating slacktivism. Here are a couple of resources on the topic: 10NTC Session: the Trouble with Slacktivism Slacktivism: Why Snopes Got it Wrong About Internet Petitions Foreign Policy: Brave New World of Slacktivism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2009

Flickr Photo by Eqqman. I asked about a SM policy when I started a new position in a nonprofit institution about seven months ago. Still no policy, seven months later. My offer to help kickstart, research and join the social networking policy development process at work (from a fundraiser perspective) was also rebuffed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. First, there is the individual and what that person can do for themselves, even if the organizational culture or internal policies do not reinforce the importance of self-care. I’m thinking about practicing self-care in two ways. Practicing self-care is an abundance mindset.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. Tags: Budget Change Management charity navigator Data guidestar Infrastructure Integration/APIs Leadership Planning Policy.

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Forum One

MARCH 1, 2009

There really are a lot of amazing people working on web technology, strategy and policy in the DC area. Twitter feed and Flickr pictures. There were folks there from NYC, west coast, and elsewhere, but about 2/3 were locals from DC. It's ongoing today - Sunday - and you can follow it by viewing the (high volume!)

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MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency. Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. We want to rock the sector.).

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