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Nonprofit Blogging and Social Networking Policies: Examples?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. Now, I swear I remember seeing something from Easter Seals or another nonprofit on a listserv that mentioned either social networking policy or blogging policy. How do organizations create policies?

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Got Social Media Policy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The other day, Matt Sharp shared this link to a social media policy generator called the Social Media Policy Tool. It asks you 12 questions mostly having to do with control and then spits out the biolerplate for your policy. Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog.

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Privacy and Security on Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A colleague recently shared this video that pokes fun of the “always on, gotta share everything on social networks&# lifestyle for many people here in America. Social networking sites like Facebook make it easy for sensitive information about us to be made public unintentionally.

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SXSW: Future of Social Networks

Amy Sample Ward

Social networks will be like air.&#. 3 things need to make social networks like air: Identity - who are you? pick your friends once - social networking fatigue. calendar, call, sms, facebook, twitter, address book = level of closeness of social data. Evaluate where social makes sense.

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Must-Read Online Fundraising, Social Media and Mobile Technology Reports for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

4) 2012 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report :: Download. 12) Social Networking: An Ongoing Series of Reports :: Download. For Nonprofits in Australia: 1) 2012 State of Social Media Use in Australian Nonprofits :: Download. Published by Australian Policy Online. Published by the Giving USA Foundation.

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Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

If you're not sure, it may be time to work out a social media policy for your staff and volunteers who blog and chat and comment online, where the personal and professional lines often blur.( How can you control what’s being said about your group and your cause? read more ).

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Is Quora Yet Another Social Network (YASN) or Something Different?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Prior to the holidays I ignored them because I just couldn’t stomach “yet another social network.” So, what made me go check it out? Ironically, it was my post “ Reflection on Networked Professional Learning &# where I linked to a post on Social Networks from Stephen Downes.