Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on "Leading on Social Media." It was an interactive workshop and the content was on how to leverage senior leaders, board, and staff as champions on social channels. Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed … [Read more...]
Transforming Nonprofit Staff Into Brand Ambassadors on Social Channels
[slideshare id=47477919&doc=slideshare-150427143443-conversion-gate02] Today I presented on a "featured session" at the United Way Community Leaders Conference in Grapevine, Texas. The conference theme was "Working Together in the Era of the Individual." I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). This post goes into more detail and provides some resources on planning and … [Read more...]
Creating A Culture of Continuous Improvement Based On Data
I'm always on the look out for useful and thought provoking resources on how nonprofits can use data to make better decisions that lead to greater impact. So, when Mary K Winkler, one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out. Moving Beyond a Culture of Compliance to a … [Read more...]
How An Informal Nonprofit Employee Champion Program Can Benefit A One-Person Communications Dept.
Are you an one-person communications department? Perhaps you can relate to this chart from Gerard Matthews, Communications Director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. As a one-person communications department, your workload, which includes doing the social media, is always increasing. Your most valuable resource, your time, is a finite resource - even if you forgo getting enough sleep which you know doesn't work to your advantage. Gerard decided to do just one that … [Read more...]
How To Make Meetings Work for Your Nonprofit (whether you are sitting,standing, or walking!)
[slideshare id=44836927&doc=finalwebinar2-150218101244-conversion-gate02] Last week, I co-presented a Guidestar webinar with Andrea Kihlstedt on the topic of healthy and productive meetings who talked about the basics for making meetings highly effective. I spoke about standing and walking meetings. This post shares some reflections and additional resources about both topics. Productive Meetings We all have lived through that awful conference call or equally horrendous in person meeting. … [Read more...]
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