Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. In truth, our guidelines are quite vague.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Staff started to see the value in social media and it led to adoption of tools. Fast forward to 2009, Wendy led a process internally to create a social media guidelines and operational handbook. Codifying a Social Culture: Policy. Most important thing in a social media policy: be professional, kind, discreet, authentic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . Departments do not work in silos, systems, policies, and work processes support this. I think it is culture.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Many groups have adopted DEI as a strategic priority. These are a few basic guidelines for writing an effective statement. Review our hiring and onboarding policies to ensure that they are equitable and fair for all applicants. Adopt a pay equity policy. Lack of resources.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 16, 2024

But when you are a lean staff and a tool comes along that can act as an unpaid intern, it’s no surprise that the philanthropic industry has jumped on AI adoption, even more than for-profit businesses. Here are some of the tips Peter shared for creating an AI policy that your organization will actually use.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Image from [link] Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support greater oversight of nonprofit hospitals and standardization of charity care policies so financial assistance reaches patients in need. AMA policy-makers also discussed increased enforcement on nonprofit hospitals that provide little or no community benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

The session will focus on exploring how nonprofits are expanding their efforts to influence public policy through social channels and understanding the legal issues and how to evaluate the work. (I’ll The “ Influencing Public Policy in A Digital Age ” is their comprehensive guide. Being proactive is also important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Foundation leaders’ responsibilities include identifying the foundation’s area of interest, developing strategies with regard to addressing that area of interest, developing guidelines for grantmaking to advance those strategies, and communicating its grantmaking guidelines to members of the public. Set clear policies.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2012

Here 11 nonprofit reports that are worth a look when you want to brush up on everything from nonprofit social media adoption, staffing, fundraising, and online engagement best practices. Check out the full report to see how your staffing stacks up with that of other organizations of similar size and tech adoption level.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

Adopting an attitude of generosity on the web goes a long way. What policies and expectations have helped put your bloggers at ease? You are representing the organization's brand, but showing some personality and passion when you feel it will help readers relate to you. You gotta give to get. Over to you.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise. What about working off site?

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

So we drilled down and developed policies and procedures addressing things like our disaster recovery plans, how we perform data classification and incident response, our software development lifecycle, access management across the organization, and so much more. There are general guidelines, but every organization is different!

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sgEngage

JUNE 24, 2024

If your organization doesn’t have one already, create a cohesive and widespread policy about AI adoption and implementation. Grantmakers need to be aware of potential bias in the AI-enhanced tools you may be adopting. Your policy also must outline how you are articulating to stakeholders how you are using this technology.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Every organization should create an AI Usage Policy. Nonprofits must adopt a conscientious approach to data governance and ensure that their use of AI aligns with data privacy to maintain the public’s trust. Ethical Guidelines: Develop a set of guidelines for AI usage that reflect the nonprofit’s values and mission.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2024

Ground rules Develop generative AI policies that give you basic guidelines. One way to start developing an AI policy for your organization is to search the internet for “responsible AI framework.” KPMG , IBM ) and also from places like Project Evident for responsible AI adoption in philanthropy. AI is here to stay.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

But our warriors understood the safety concerns and quickly adopted the military stance of “adapt and overcome.” We plan to go back to face-to-face meetings this fall, and we’ll follow state and local guidelines for social distancing, hand sanitizer, masks, etc. We could no longer do any more face-to-face meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

Approaches and tools: What are the basic guidelines for designing and using data and information visualizations? Organizational culture, visualization and data sense making techniques, and a case study from Children Now about they went from sharing all text-based advocacy data to using visualization for policy change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Have a formal policy about sending after hours emails. Some organizations have explicit policies such as “no email between 7pm-7am. More and more nonprofits are adopting flexible workplace or have remote teams in different cities. This contributes to poor work performance.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

How should nonprofits mitigate risks in adopting AI technology? Now that we have an idea of the potential for AI technology to improve nonprofit work, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of how an organization goes about adopting and/or developing AI tools. Mitigating future risks: Why your organization should have an AI policy.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2009

They are tasked with the important work of research, creating our policy agenda and providing strategy for legislative campaigns. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group. Unfortunately, we were reprimanded for not being “on message” with our policy agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

They also have some specific examples about how to present the branding for the United Way on Twitter and have incorporated Twitter into their social media policy guidelines. (See I know of about 30 chapters that have adopted it, but haven't heard any amazing success stories.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

At DKJA, we worked with our lawyers to create transparent policies, contracts, and addendums that met our needs and all local, state, federal, and industry guidelines. The school also has the option of issuing new contracts if there is a significant change in the policy or the enrollment cycle schedule. What is the bottom line?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Photo by Dietrich I love the Red Cross's approach to scaling its engagement strategy by involving the whole organization - it is spelled out in their strategy handbook and policy guidelines. Follow the personal online communications guidelines.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 29, 2021

And you need policies, procedures, and processes. Do you have the policies, procedures, and processes in place to run your nonprofit smoothly and efficiently? . But the business side of a nonprofit requires a solid foundation of written policies, procedures, and processes. You have to establish your brand. You need a budget.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Guidelines for Secure Use of Social Media by Federal Departments and Agencies ,? spear phishing, social engineering, and web application security) and a series of recommended policy controls (ex. policy; acquisition; training; host; network) to mitigate these vulnerabilities. Just last week, the council released ?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Ensuring these guidelines are followed should be part of their risk management plans. Strengthen Your Organization’s Internal Controls Internal controls are policies and procedures that nonprofits put in place to help avoid risky situations. Adopting a conflict of interest policy. Compliance.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

The upside is that they will be more eager and capable adopters of the technology you give them. Outside of the actual tech, you will also need to pay closer attention to policies. On the lawyer side, you're going to need to develop policies that protect the various KINDS of data your staff are working with.

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2018

What it means: Time to adopt competitive strategies or face account cancellation. Google’s stricter guidelines within this policy change will help push nonprofits’ in the direction of increased CTR by way of keywords. The change: Increasing click-through rates (CTR) to stay above 5 percent. Increase the. of your keywords.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The best practice guidelines below empower business officers to stop chasing late payments and keep their school’s cash flow positive. However, before a business officer offers flexibility, it’s essential to have rules that define the terms of tuition payment and processing and have school leadership fully support those policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

adoption at the corporate enterprise level which brings together two interesting threads: lagging adoption of desktop applications and fear. There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

Create an annual budget and work with your Board to adopt the budget. If your work requires travel, are you being reimbursed for the cost of gas and wear-and-tear on your car, according to relevant guidelines? Present the recommended process to the Board, so they can adopt a reimbursement policy.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

It is an important factor to consider when looking at not only designing a RAG-based conversational AI, but also when designing organizational AI policy in general. This includes setting up feedback loops from user interactions and vetting and testing models with internal stakeholders before wider release or adoption by the public.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

Furthermore, share the authors, “With hybrid work, leaders need to ensure that employees are engaged, remote work is productive, and hybrid teams are collaborating, all within legal guidelines.” The book is divided into four sections: Section 1: Planning and Preparing a Hybrid Work Policy. Section 2: The 7 C’s of Leadership.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

To determine which organizations would be nominated, an extensive selection process was conducted by a dedicated pro bono committee according to specific program guidelines. They made good recommendations and we adopted almost all of them. Optimizing + Enhancing New Entry Sustainable Farming Project’s Technology.

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