I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitate a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. But I also got an opportunity to finally hear the keynote speaker, Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer of the @MetMuseum in person. I've been fan for a long time, but never had the chance to meet or hear him in person. Sree is authentic, humble, and always making connections. When I asked for a … [Read more...]
Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter
There are no better champions for your organization’s communication’s strategy than your staff. 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. I asked colleagues what nonprofits had good employee champion programs and Chris Tuttle pointed … [Read more...]
A Few Good Tools To Manage Your Online Professional Network Connections
The last two posts I published on professional networking, "Smart Professional Networking Online" and "Tidying Your Online Connections" prompted some great discussion when I shared on Facebook. Heidi Ketroser Massey and Nancy Schwartz asked about tools to help manage the process. This post was inspired by that discussion. Back when I first started working, my best professional networking tool was my Rolodex. Whenever I met someone new, the business card would get added to it, along with some … [Read more...]
The Art of Tidying of Your Online Professional Network Connections
I've just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. It covered how leaders can use their social channels as their authentic selves to engage with their communities and in leadership conversations with peers, social learning, and intentionally building and developing professional networks online. One of the classes was focused on "Smart Professional Online Networking" and … [Read more...]
Smarter Nonprofit Networking: Building A Professional Network That Works for You
"You are not ever a genius all by yourself. Your ideas are a function of the people you are connected with..." - Carol Dweck, Author, Mindset Your professional network is your greatest asset no matter what stage you are in your nonprofit career, whether you are an emerging leader or an acknowledged thought leader in your industry or somewhere in between. When you intentionally build your professional network in the right way, you create a circle of individuals who are all rooting for your … [Read more...]
