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Association Brain Food: 5.19.23

Reid All About it

Aaron Terr at Persuasion makes a free speech case for Section 230 , which prevents owners of social media platforms and online communities from being sued for user-generated content. Politicians want to beat up on social media platforms because people are saps, but what are the downstream effects? Fri 5/19 at 4 p.m.

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

Beth Kanter

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. Many nonprofit CEOs use their social media profiles to extend the reach of their thought leadership and connect with professional colleagues, media, and policy makers. It takes more time, savvy, and online comfort.

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

Beth Kanter

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. Are you an one-person communications department? How did you do it?

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Transforming Nonprofit Staff Into Champions on Social

Beth Kanter

They are most likely already sharing great stories about your organization on their social media streams and making suggestions to their friends and followers about how awesome your organization’s programs are. One Person Communications Department: Arkansas Advocates for Children has a one-person communications department.

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Association Subculture: DIY - "Makes Me Think Of" Creativity Exercise

Association Subculture

For example, "Clouds" which makes me think of "sky" which makes me think of "planes" which makes me think about "visiting my grandparents in Arkansas," which makes me think of.well, you get the picture. Shelly’s favorite words are change, vision, strategy, tactics, learning, teaching and Lord of the Rings. social media. (3).

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How Experimentation and Measurement Can Help Win A Little Bet with Facebook Promoted Posts

Beth Kanter

” designed to help grantees institutionalize social media and networked nonprofit skills and strategies and integrate them into their broader strategy for communications on children’s health. All of these materials were available on a special landing page: [link]. Source: Tweet4Ok Blog. Set up Experiments!

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Balance the Spontaneous and Strategic of Social Media: Newsjacking and Obamacare

Beth Kanter

One area of challenge: balancing strategic communications with spontaneity of social media. The spontaneous part is all the organic stuff, including relationship building, maintaining light touches and connections with your network until there is a moment of opportunity, being nimble and adaptable, and well, being social.