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How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step

Beth Kanter

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director).

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How Nonprofit CEOs Use Social Media (Enthusiastically) for Personal and Organizational Leadership

Beth Kanter

Maybe you are muttering to yourself ”Who can find the time to do social media?” While the communications department has suggested the idea, he was on board from the start. He does his own all of his own tweeting and as his communications staff reports, “enthusiastically at that!”

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6 Ways To Engage Association Members

CMA Solutions

Communicating and promoting your association’s recent innovation would help jog their memories.) Social Media Brings A Nationwide Community Together On a national scale, the Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA) asks its members to give back to the communities they serve every year during National Celebrate Services Week.

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Friday Buzz: Concrete Evidence on the Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships

Associations Now

A new report from the NJ Policy Research Organization provides a comprehensive look at how integral the bonds that tie businesses, associations, state governments, and academia are to economic success. . E2M strategist Ankit Panchal has an editorial on SocialFish with tips on how nonprofits can make social media work for them.

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How Nonprofit Leaders Make Time for Social Media and Other Secrets to Adoption

Beth Kanter

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. Model the Model.

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Authors and Social Media: a recap of 12.15 #SMfastfwd

ChatterBachs

Scotia Systems ( @scotiasystems ) has put together an excellent recap of the 12.15 #SMfastfwd tweetchat on “Authors and Social Media” It is also well done visually. SMFastFwd – Authors & Social Media Discussion. DKRex : Deb Rexon, JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ – AF librarian; will vacation anywhere.

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Eric Lanke: Stop Calling It Strategic Planning

Eric Lanke

For us, the challenge is less one of process and design and more one about finding the human resources and the time in everyones busy schedules to communicate enough to keep strategy and tactics aligned throughout our organization. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. You Cant Script the Formation of Strategy. 2012, January 23).