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It’s already been a pretty damn good week. I gave a keynote on Monday at the Third Sector Social Media Convention ( #nfpsm ), and it was a huge thrill to be invited on stage by Jon Snow. MORE
I was fortunate enough to serve on a committee of AFP International that brought together some social media gurus to hash out guidelines that nonprofit organizations can use to craft their own social media policies. Tags: Policy social media twitter guidelines MORE
Strategy policy social media guidelinesThere are unspoken rules on how online fundraising efforts are managed on Facebook Pages, blogs and private communities. Often these rules aren’t any different than the social rules we observe in our daily lives. MORE
Did you know that Facebook has specific guidelines for contests run on Pages, and violating those guidelines could get your page deleted? Here are just a few points the guidelines cover: Promotions on Facebook must be administered within Apps on Facebook.com , either on a Canvas Page or an app on a Page Tab. So the whole “everyone who likes this photo will be entered to win” or “leave a comment to be entered to win” thing=voilating Facebook’s guidelines. MORE
Here are some wise guidelines that Verizon Wireless has used to promote effective, efficient and responsible e-mail use within its company. You can find these guidelines in the new book, Managers, Can You Hear Me Now? MORE
Your organization is starting a blog and you have all your ducks in a row. You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. You want to offer your bloggers some guidance and make them comfortable with the process since many of them are nervous about blogging and most have never blogged before. MORE
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. MORE
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. MORE
Being an unofficial store, it does not have strict guidelines for the apps and games that contain in it, unlike the Apple store which use. Why do you need TweakBox? TweakBox is not an official appstore, but an unofficial one with many apps and games that could work on any device from Android to IOS. The post How to Download & Use TweakBox app on your IOS device appeared first on PhreeSite.com. Top List MORE
Check this out - it's Intel's social media policy/guidelines for employees. I would reprint some of it, but the whole thing is toally awesome. If you need to develop some for your own organization, I'd use this as a model - in fact, if anyone has specific ideas about modifying this to be more association-specific, please feel free to leave me some comments, and together we can create a really good association model for us to use. MORE
Laid out guidelines for how to clearly separate or inter-mix personal and professional social media presences. Idealware is working on creating a Social Media Policy Workbook to be released in April at NTEN’s 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. To support the Workbook content (and to highlight in an upcoming NTEN:Change article) they are hoping to profile a number of different organizations who are dealing with tough social media policy issues. MORE
These 12 guidelines by two leading communications experts can help you create really great team communication in your organization. Team-Communication MORE
Beth Kanter, who I’ve written about before ( 1 )( 2 )( 3 ), recently shared a copy of the AARP’s Facebook Community Guidelines. These are a set of guidelines letting people know what they may and may not post on the AARP Facebook page(s). MORE
Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. And Claire Sale shared the British Red Cross guidelines: The British Red Cross values comments both complimentary and critical. Monthly Chats chat commbuild community builder guidelines social mediaIn this month’s chat,we had some good discussion around social media guildines and online community moderation. MORE
Google offers this advice to help you gather the necessary information for renewal: You can start preparing for the renewal window by gathering your nonprofit status documentation and reviewing your AdWords account to ensure it is in compliance with the Google Grants guidelines. MORE
Follow these guidelines and you will be well on your way to successfully bettering your community Volunteering your time serves an important function in your community. MORE
These are our Social Media Guidelines for staff here in the High Plains Division of the American Cancer Society. Tags: Economics Innovation Social Software Guidelines Online Networks Social Media Staff Thoughts Launch and learn right? We represent 7 states here in the US. Take a look and let us know what you think. The first 4 people to comment will win prizes. Feel free to adopt and modify them for your org just make sure you give us some credit and link love! MORE
Great video by Andy Sernovitz on the FTC Rules. We all need to watch this asap. Notes below are from the Vimeo notes. Social Media Ethics Briefing: Staying Out of Trouble — presented by Andy Sernovitz from SocialMedia.org on Vimeo. MORE
Strategy social media for non-profits social media guidelinesUnderstanding your audience, refining your nonprofit’s message, and knowing how to use various different social media channels can often be a confusing process. MORE
Facebook claimed the ad was “degrading” and broke its guidelines on language." 'via Facebook's resistance to RNIB's advert poses questions for charity campaigns | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian : "he news that Facebook had banned the Royal National Institute of Blind People’s (RNIB) latest campaign advert about sight loss raises questions about the future of charity adverts on the social media platform. MORE
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. MORE
In order to provide resources and guidance for members and volunteer leaders, and especially to support ethical guidelines that already exist, AFP AFP Releases Guidance for Members, Chapters on Social Media - About AFP - AFP: "AFP Releases Guidance for Members, Chapters on Social Media(Nov. 16, 2010) Social media is a fast-moving, fluid environment, with ever-shifting rules and new technology. MORE
The Salvation Army of Austin Advertising and Social Media Guidelines The Salvation Army of Austin :The Salvation Army will support your third-party fundraising effort by enabling you to link your social media campaign to specified web page(s), our Facebook fundraiser page and retweeting your Twitter campaign. MORE
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. MORE
Timo Luege recently shared the new social media staff guidelines created at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Creating staff guidelines specific to online or social media use in organizations has been a hot topic for the last year or so and many organizations rely on examples of what other organizations or companies have created as a starting place for making their own. Why create social media staff guidelines? MORE
Today, despite the growth in lawsuits over several years, federal website accessibility guidelines don’t exist yet. Department of Justice (DOJ) is working to define specific guidelines to businesses and other public entities covered by the ADA. Dunkin Donuts. Domino’s Pizza. MORE
People keep asking me for the link to my post about Intel's social media employee guidelines (and other examples) so here it is again. Their policy guidelines are so good that I have actually cut and pasted them into a Word doc in case the link goes dead again. Intel's link was actually not working a couple of days ago, so I got in touch with them and they totally fixed it. Awesomesauce! MORE
Watch this great video introducing social media guidelines. Hat tip to Christina Stallings for the find! We are working with many organizations on their social media policies, including training staff on how to apply them. MORE
The Olympics – A Guideline to Continuous Learning. The post The Olympics – A Guideline to Continuous Learning appeared first on Gyrus. With the Olympics coming to a close and the closing ceremony occurring this Sunday. MORE
Have your cake and eat it too, a guideline for finding your organization's ideal LMS. The post Guideline For Finding Your Organization’s Ideal LMS appeared first on Gyrus. A post written by Meghayu Advaryu. MORE
Here are links to the top 4 search engine’s guidelines for webmasters. These explain how to get your website listed and can help you get a higher search results ranking. Google. Bing (Microsoft). Yahoo. Ask.com. MORE
" Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio." " What do those guidelines look like? The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. MORE
We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n MORE
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. MORE
Do you have social business guidelines? That lay out who owns the information shared? How do you share identity and affinity with your company? How do you mention partners or clients? Think about it. Implementation Risk and Social Media MORE
What might be needed is a set of social media usage guidelines. A very smart colleague who works at a foundation helped me understand the distinction between social media policy and usage guidelines through a discussion on his Facebook wall. Smart Colleague: Here's some guidelines. MORE
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other. MORE
What are the basic guidelines for online sponsorship? Andrea Berry explains in this AskIdealware video. -->. Trackback URL for this post: [link]. Fundraising MORE
To minimize bad feelings and maximize productivity, follow these guidelines Content Marketing Training - How to Motivate Employees to Create Content - Reputation Capital: Content Marketing Strategy, Copywriting, Inbound Marketing : It can be difficult to encourage busy employees to provide content in addition to their normal jobs (Whaddaya mean I have to do marketing? Isn’t that why we have a marketing department?). MORE
Strategy culture social media guidelines technologyIn this short video, I share an experience I had working with a nonprofit to help them find the right people to represent the org online. MORE
Rather than welding the roof back on to the vehicle which is the manufacturer’s guidelines, the roof was glued on. Texas Watch is a nonpartisan citizen advocacy group founded in 1998. They just celebrated over 20 years of advocating for Texas families. MORE
The company drew fire on social media for initially refusing the ad, saying it violates internal guidelines that favor "neutral or positive" messages and disallow "threatening" language." 'via MORE
With a solid foundation, you can begin to implement good design practices and build some brand guidelines for your organization. understand why implementing brand guidelines creates value for your organization. identify practical ways to use organizational brand guidelines consistently. MORE
Guidelines Related Topics NCE Social Media
MAY 4, 2011
Beth Kanter, who I’ve written about before ( 1 )( 2 )( 3 ), recently shared a copy of the AARP’s Facebook Community Guidelines. These are a set of guidelines letting people know what they may and may not post on the AARP Facebook page(s).
NCE Social Media
NOVEMBER 19, 2010
I was fortunate enough to serve on a committee of AFP International that brought together some social media gurus to hash out guidelines that nonprofit organizations can use to craft their own social media policies. Tags: Policy social media twitter guidelines
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Wild Apricot
OCTOBER 16, 2017
These 12 guidelines by two leading communications experts can help you create really great team communication in your organization. Team-Communication
Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
FEBRUARY 19, 2017
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.
Gyrus
AUGUST 19, 2016
The Olympics – A Guideline to Continuous Learning. The post The Olympics – A Guideline to Continuous Learning appeared first on Gyrus. With the Olympics coming to a close and the closing ceremony occurring this Sunday.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2019
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 20, 2013
We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n
AFP Blog
OCTOBER 25, 2013
The Salvation Army of Austin Advertising and Social Media Guidelines The Salvation Army of Austin :The Salvation Army will support your third-party fundraising effort by enabling you to link your social media campaign to specified web page(s), our Facebook fundraiser page and retweeting your Twitter campaign.
Gyrus
JUNE 23, 2016
Have your cake and eat it too, a guideline for finding your organization's ideal LMS. The post Guideline For Finding Your Organization’s Ideal LMS appeared first on Gyrus. A post written by Meghayu Advaryu.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MARCH 20, 2017
A few guidelines will ensure a level playing field for all team members as they pursue their individual goals." Christensen's recommended eight guidelines are: We respect each other.
SocialFish
MARCH 11, 2009
People keep asking me for the link to my post about Intel's social media employee guidelines (and other examples) so here it is again. Their policy guidelines are so good that I have actually cut and pasted them into a Word doc in case the link goes dead again. Intel's link was actually not working a couple of days ago, so I got in touch with them and they totally fixed it. Awesomesauce!
SocialFish
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Great video by Andy Sernovitz on the FTC Rules. We all need to watch this asap. Notes below are from the Vimeo notes. Social Media Ethics Briefing: Staying Out of Trouble — presented by Andy Sernovitz from SocialMedia.org on Vimeo.
Tech Soup Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
With a solid foundation, you can begin to implement good design practices and build some brand guidelines for your organization. understand why implementing brand guidelines creates value for your organization. identify practical ways to use organizational brand guidelines consistently.
SocialFish
DECEMBER 23, 2008
Check this out - it's Intel's social media policy/guidelines for employees. I would reprint some of it, but the whole thing is toally awesome. If you need to develop some for your own organization, I'd use this as a model - in fact, if anyone has specific ideas about modifying this to be more association-specific, please feel free to leave me some comments, and together we can create a really good association model for us to use.
FI Space
MAY 19, 2009
These are our Social Media Guidelines for staff here in the High Plains Division of the American Cancer Society. Tags: Economics Innovation Social Software Guidelines Online Networks Social Media Staff Thoughts Launch and learn right? We represent 7 states here in the US. Take a look and let us know what you think. The first 4 people to comment will win prizes. Feel free to adopt and modify them for your org just make sure you give us some credit and link love!
SocialFish
DECEMBER 28, 2011
Laid out guidelines for how to clearly separate or inter-mix personal and professional social media presences. Idealware is working on creating a Social Media Policy Workbook to be released in April at NTEN’s 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. To support the Workbook content (and to highlight in an upcoming NTEN:Change article) they are hoping to profile a number of different organizations who are dealing with tough social media policy issues.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 23, 2011
Here are some wise guidelines that Verizon Wireless has used to promote effective, efficient and responsible e-mail use within its company. You can find these guidelines in the new book, Managers, Can You Hear Me Now?
Frogloop
JULY 13, 2011
Your organization is starting a blog and you have all your ducks in a row. You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. You want to offer your bloggers some guidance and make them comfortable with the process since many of them are nervous about blogging and most have never blogged before.
Amy Sample Ward
JULY 31, 2012
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 19, 2009
What might be needed is a set of social media usage guidelines. A very smart colleague who works at a foundation helped me understand the distinction between social media policy and usage guidelines through a discussion on his Facebook wall. Smart Colleague: Here's some guidelines.
Amy Sample Ward
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Timo Luege recently shared the new social media staff guidelines created at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Creating staff guidelines specific to online or social media use in organizations has been a hot topic for the last year or so and many organizations rely on examples of what other organizations or companies have created as a starting place for making their own. Why create social media staff guidelines?
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 16, 2010
Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. And Claire Sale shared the British Red Cross guidelines: The British Red Cross values comments both complimentary and critical. Monthly Chats chat commbuild community builder guidelines social mediaIn this month’s chat,we had some good discussion around social media guildines and online community moderation.
John Haydon
MAY 7, 2012
Strategy social media for non-profits social media guidelinesUnderstanding your audience, refining your nonprofit’s message, and knowing how to use various different social media channels can often be a confusing process.
John Haydon
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Strategy culture social media guidelines technologyIn this short video, I share an experience I had working with a nonprofit to help them find the right people to represent the org online.
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 20, 2007
The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters
APRIL 5, 2019
Rather than welding the roof back on to the vehicle which is the manufacturer’s guidelines, the roof was glued on. Texas Watch is a nonpartisan citizen advocacy group founded in 1998. They just celebrated over 20 years of advocating for Texas families.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 7, 2007
" Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio." " What do those guidelines look like? The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below.
John Haydon
APRIL 25, 2011
Strategy policy social media guidelinesThere are unspoken rules on how online fundraising efforts are managed on Facebook Pages, blogs and private communities. Often these rules aren’t any different than the social rules we observe in our daily lives.
VolunteerMark
MARCH 26, 2015
Follow these guidelines and you will be well on your way to successfully bettering your community Volunteering your time serves an important function in your community.
Byte Technology
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Today, despite the growth in lawsuits over several years, federal website accessibility guidelines don’t exist yet. Department of Justice (DOJ) is working to define specific guidelines to businesses and other public entities covered by the ADA. Dunkin Donuts. Domino’s Pizza.
SocialFish
JANUARY 7, 2013
Do you have social business guidelines? That lay out who owns the information shared? How do you share identity and affinity with your company? How do you mention partners or clients? Think about it. Implementation Risk and Social Media
AFP Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Facebook claimed the ad was “degrading” and broke its guidelines on language." 'via Facebook's resistance to RNIB's advert poses questions for charity campaigns | Voluntary Sector Network | The Guardian : "he news that Facebook had banned the Royal National Institute of Blind People’s (RNIB) latest campaign advert about sight loss raises questions about the future of charity adverts on the social media platform.
Idealware
AUGUST 3, 2012
What are the basic guidelines for online sponsorship? Andrea Berry explains in this AskIdealware video. -->. Trackback URL for this post: [link]. Fundraising
AFP Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2015
The company drew fire on social media for initially refusing the ad, saying it violates internal guidelines that favor "neutral or positive" messages and disallow "threatening" language." 'via
AFP Blog
JANUARY 8, 2013
To minimize bad feelings and maximize productivity, follow these guidelines Content Marketing Training - How to Motivate Employees to Create Content - Reputation Capital: Content Marketing Strategy, Copywriting, Inbound Marketing : It can be difficult to encourage busy employees to provide content in addition to their normal jobs (Whaddaya mean I have to do marketing? Isn’t that why we have a marketing department?).
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Being an unofficial store, it does not have strict guidelines for the apps and games that contain in it, unlike the Apple store which use. Why do you need TweakBox? TweakBox is not an official appstore, but an unofficial one with many apps and games that could work on any device from Android to IOS. The post How to Download & Use TweakBox app on your IOS device appeared first on PhreeSite.com. Top List
Steve Bridger
JUNE 15, 2011
It’s already been a pretty damn good week. I gave a keynote on Monday at the Third Sector Social Media Convention ( #nfpsm ), and it was a huge thrill to be invited on stage by Jon Snow.
AFP Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
In order to provide resources and guidance for members and volunteer leaders, and especially to support ethical guidelines that already exist, AFP AFP Releases Guidance for Members, Chapters on Social Media - About AFP - AFP: "AFP Releases Guidance for Members, Chapters on Social Media(Nov. 16, 2010) Social media is a fast-moving, fluid environment, with ever-shifting rules and new technology.
NCE Social Media
JULY 17, 2009
Here are links to the top 4 search engine’s guidelines for webmasters. These explain how to get your website listed and can help you get a higher search results ranking. Google. Bing (Microsoft). Yahoo. Ask.com.
SocialFish
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Watch this great video introducing social media guidelines. Hat tip to Christina Stallings for the find! We are working with many organizations on their social media policies, including training staff on how to apply them.
SocialFish
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Did you know that Facebook has specific guidelines for contests run on Pages, and violating those guidelines could get your page deleted? Here are just a few points the guidelines cover: Promotions on Facebook must be administered within Apps on Facebook.com , either on a Canvas Page or an app on a Page Tab. So the whole “everyone who likes this photo will be entered to win” or “leave a comment to be entered to win” thing=voilating Facebook’s guidelines.
SocialFish
JULY 26, 2013
Google offers this advice to help you gather the necessary information for renewal: You can start preparing for the renewal window by gathering your nonprofit status documentation and reviewing your AdWords account to ensure it is in compliance with the Google Grants guidelines.
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