#GivingTuesday-and every day! If you haven’t come up with your Giving Tuesday strategy yet, it might be a little bit too late. It’s Giving Tuesday time and many nonprofits have upped their promotional efforts, their donation sites, and their thank you letters. Some have even come up with creative ways to launch a social giving strategy […]
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I subscribe to a lot of email listservs (and sometimes I don’t really remember actually subscribing to them). But last week, I got a reminder to sign up for a webcast of Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Markets’ Social Media: Own Your Brand or Someone Else Will. The event was held Friday, November 14, […]
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I must confess that the thing that frustrates me the most in life is being left out. In my personal life, being left out is never a good feeling. The new Internet slang acronym FOMO (or Fear of Missing Out) is a real thing in my world. While this is also a very serious […]
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An aside: I fully support changes to help reverse climate change and better our earth. The passion of this article is in no way directed negatively to the cause, or the people’s right to protest, but simply an error that could have made Sunday’s March much more effective. As a New Yorker, I am […]
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I started tweeting in 2008 for one of my journalism classes. It was pretty cool to be able to use social media during class then (professors didn’t like cell phones out during class back in my day). But the one thing I didn’t really start using until the recent past was hashtags. I always […]
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If you’ve surfed social media sometime in the last two weeks, it’s pretty likely you’ve seen a bunch of videos of people – both in your network and not in your network – saying something about ALS, naming a few names, and ending with a bucket of ice water drenching them from head to toe. […]
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I have a significant number of friends who work in the nonprofit industry. And while I’ve mentioned before that my full-time gig has been in the for-profit world, I think most of the nonprofit work I do is a direct result of impeccable best practices that I’ve learned from my for-profit employers. When […]
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How do you manage bad press? The first rule of public relations is to do something good and then talk about it. But what if something bad happens? PR is even more important. It’s likely that your organization doesn’t have a dedicated Public Relations team and you might not have the budget to hire a […]
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No matter what level your organization falls in, take a look at your management style and make sure your ego is in check. Here are some great things to think about when doing a little self examination:
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In the past month or so, I’ve had the opportunity to meet several bright, energetic, enthusiastic and passionate young people who are making the nonprofit sector better in a number of ways. Now-maybe it’s because I’m getting older and bit nostalgic—but I don’t recall being nearly as dedicated to anything (well, at least anything […]
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