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
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
Environmental Protection Agency puts out safeguards and regulations for our country to help us do our part – clean power, reducing usage of fossil fuels, and other guidelines. The Oracle at Delphi told Oedipus “Know thyself!” 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
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
When she takes photos and posts on social media channels, she uses these common sense guidelines: Doesn’t take photos of kids if clothing identifies their school (e.g. What are your best tips for social media policy and guidelines for nonprofits that serve young people? 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
They often equate brand to their logo, a cool color palette, and a set of identity guidelines—prioritizing consistency as the main objective. It’s more than a guidelines manual. And you have a shiny new set of brand guidelines. MORE
However, many organizations look to create an official policy to satisfy legal concerns, make senior leadership more comfortable, and to provide more in depth guidelines to staff who engage supporters and the public on social channels. 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
Meet Reporting Guidelines. Nonprofit organizations are accountable to a variety of internal and external stakeholders. For this reason, it can be challenging to present timely, accurate data to external stakeholders while demonstrating fiscal responsibility internally. 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
Back in my days as a Corporate Funder, I was routinely asked to provide giving details for our organization. This information was included in annual reports, presented at Board Meetings, shared with employees or even at monthly departmental meetings. Our focus was on: Dollars granted. 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
Use these steps as a guideline. Britt Bravo. Nonprofit Blogger. brittbravo.com. So, you're ready to start a blog for your organization (or wondering why people aren't reading your current one)? It helps to have a plan. Will you make me a promise before you read this? Don't make blog planning a six-month process. A little planning will go a long way towards making your blog more successful. A lot of planning will just slow you down. 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
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 well thought-out grateful patient program provides the guidelines to cultivate relationships with patients and turn those patients into lifetime supporters and donors. Today’s healthcare market is consumer driven. 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
What every social media marketer should know about the 2013 FTC guidelines Twubs Offers New API-Compliant Twitter Chat Tools Social Media Marketing Primer How MomsRising and charity: water have used Storify & Quora for success. MORE
We have made changes to the Session Submission Guidelines and the Session Submission form. Submitters are required to review the guidelines before submitting session ideas. 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
" 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
Once an appropriate target amount has been determined for operating reserves, the board needs to draft a policy that establishes the fund and sets forth guidelines for using it. Implementation – Put into practice the guidelines established in the Operating Reserve Policy. 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
It is far better to address unhealthy attitudes toward digital communications at your nonprofit by carefully crafted and communicated email guidelines developed with everyone’s input. Some nonprofit workplaces have a rule about not sending any emails in the evenings or weekends. MORE
As a funder, I need to state upfront during in my application guidelines what my program is trying to achieve, enabling grantees to determine if their program is a match. MORE
If you follow a few simple guidelines, however, you’ll be on the right track to overcoming those challenges. As outlined in this ebook, those guidelines include spreading your campaigns accordingly and retargeting to stay top of mind. MORE
To support the champions strategy, Human Rights Watch incorporated broad guidelines in its s ocial media policy for staff to participate as their personal brands – tweeting as themselves versus an organizational or department brand. MORE
You should expect to see annual growth in your housefile (5-20% annual increase as a guideline), but remember growth isn’t everything. 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
It’s best when you can connect the need and how you’ll address it to the funder’s guidelines/priorities. Rory Green — Make Sure the Guidelines are Clear. It may sound basic, but many charities don’t pay very close attention to the grantor’s wishes and guidelines. Grant writing is a great way to secure funding for your organization and has a multifaceted pathway to success. MORE
Check out these guidelines for ideal post lengths, according to Buffer: The post Infographic: The Ideal Length For Everything Online appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. 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
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
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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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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.
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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They often equate brand to their logo, a cool color palette, and a set of identity guidelines—prioritizing consistency as the main objective. It’s more than a guidelines manual. And you have a shiny new set of brand guidelines.
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A well thought-out grateful patient program provides the guidelines to cultivate relationships with patients and turn those patients into lifetime supporters and donors. Today’s healthcare market is consumer driven.
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MAY 31, 2017
It’s best when you can connect the need and how you’ll address it to the funder’s guidelines/priorities. Rory Green — Make Sure the Guidelines are Clear. It may sound basic, but many charities don’t pay very close attention to the grantor’s wishes and guidelines. Grant writing is a great way to secure funding for your organization and has a multifaceted pathway to success.
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.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 14, 2016
Once an appropriate target amount has been determined for operating reserves, the board needs to draft a policy that establishes the fund and sets forth guidelines for using it. Implementation – Put into practice the guidelines established in the Operating Reserve Policy.
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Back in my days as a Corporate Funder, I was routinely asked to provide giving details for our organization. This information was included in annual reports, presented at Board Meetings, shared with employees or even at monthly departmental meetings. Our focus was on: Dollars granted.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 24, 2015
To support the champions strategy, Human Rights Watch incorporated broad guidelines in its s ocial media policy for staff to participate as their personal brands – tweeting as themselves versus an organizational or department brand.
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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 4, 2017
It is far better to address unhealthy attitudes toward digital communications at your nonprofit by carefully crafted and communicated email guidelines developed with everyone’s input. Some nonprofit workplaces have a rule about not sending any emails in the evenings or weekends.
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.
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 13, 2016
As a funder, I need to state upfront during in my application guidelines what my program is trying to achieve, enabling grantees to determine if their program is a match.
TechImpact
OCTOBER 31, 2014
Check out these guidelines for ideal post lengths, according to Buffer: The post Infographic: The Ideal Length For Everything Online appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 10, 2016
Meet Reporting Guidelines. Nonprofit organizations are accountable to a variety of internal and external stakeholders. For this reason, it can be challenging to present timely, accurate data to external stakeholders while demonstrating fiscal responsibility internally.
SocialFish
DECEMBER 1, 2014
If you follow a few simple guidelines, however, you’ll be on the right track to overcoming those challenges. As outlined in this ebook, those guidelines include spreading your campaigns accordingly and retargeting to stay top of mind.
Connection Cafe
MARCH 10, 2017
Environmental Protection Agency puts out safeguards and regulations for our country to help us do our part – clean power, reducing usage of fossil fuels, and other guidelines. The Oracle at Delphi told Oedipus “Know thyself!”
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.
SocialFish
JANUARY 30, 2014
What every social media marketer should know about the 2013 FTC guidelines Twubs Offers New API-Compliant Twitter Chat Tools Social Media Marketing Primer How MomsRising and charity: water have used Storify & Quora for success.
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JULY 16, 2012
However, many organizations look to create an official policy to satisfy legal concerns, make senior leadership more comfortable, and to provide more in depth guidelines to staff who engage supporters and the public on social channels.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 19, 2011
When she takes photos and posts on social media channels, she uses these common sense guidelines: Doesn’t take photos of kids if clothing identifies their school (e.g. What are your best tips for social media policy and guidelines for nonprofits that serve young people?
NTEN
JULY 10, 2012
We have made changes to the Session Submission Guidelines and the Session Submission form. Submitters are required to review the guidelines before submitting session ideas.
Connection Cafe
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You should expect to see annual growth in your housefile (5-20% annual increase as a guideline), but remember growth isn’t everything.
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Use these steps as a guideline. Britt Bravo. Nonprofit Blogger. brittbravo.com. So, you're ready to start a blog for your organization (or wondering why people aren't reading your current one)? It helps to have a plan. Will you make me a promise before you read this? Don't make blog planning a six-month process. A little planning will go a long way towards making your blog more successful. A lot of planning will just slow you down.
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