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Association Brain Food: 5.19.23

Reid All About it

Here’s a conundrum: How can members ever feel like part of their chapter community if they don’t attend chapter events? Billhighway explains how to get reacquainted with post-pandemic chapter members and design a chapter event experience that’s worth their time. Community censoring. William Penn Chapter events.

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Association Brain Food: 5.26.23

Reid All About it

Callum Borchers, Wall Street Journal ) Meet context switching, the number one productivity killer in the workplace, and find out how to overcome it (Danielle Ezell, TechSmith ) Good eats Skip down to the list of free educational events if you prefer takeout. Hear the most common pitfalls and how to avoid them. More info/register.

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How An Informal Nonprofit Employee Champion Program Can Benefit A One-Person Communications Dept.

Beth Kanter

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.

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Social Media and Disaster: Hospitals On Facebook

KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup

Facebook became a gathering place - a communication hub - a way to share important information with a large number of other people who had no other way to communicate with one another. Many hospitals have figured out how to meet their task of engaging the community using tools like Facebook to hold a steady, reliable presence online.

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Advocating for a Better Legislative Flow

Association Adviser

Now that I’m on the outside [with AWWA], I understand what the regulatory interests and concerns are from utilities and how to best communicate those to the EPA insiders. GTM: The Beaver (Arkansas) Water District has put in a rate increase for source water protection through landscape protection.

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Transforming Nonprofit Staff Into Champions on Social

Beth Kanter

Many nonprofits have limited capacity and staff resources when it comes to implementing marketing and communications strategy, especially social media. It expands your organization’s social footprint and presence beyond what the lone communications director or marketing team is capable of reaching on their own.

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How Your Organization’s CEO Can Use Social Media for Thought Leadership

Beth Kanter

Your organization’s branded social channels will most likely have a formal and structured editorial calendar linked to your policy agenda and other communications objectives. Having your CEO use social in a separate channel gives you more flexibility, especially with breaking news. How To Be A Chameleon.