Location: Phone & online chat

Topic: Questions, conversation and ideas about communications for nonprofits

Description:  This month’s Communications Roundtable focuses on communications struggles, lessons, and best practices for working internationally. Movement building, campaigning, and scaling programs and services across regions, borders, and countries is incredibly important to making lasting social impact. Bit it also comes with very real obstacles for communication: from translation and language barriers to cultural differences that may impact your programs or reception of your services.

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• NTEN Roundtables
  

Location: NY, NY, USA

Topic: The Changing Face of Nonprofits

Description:  Nonprofits, just like businesses and other enterprises, have seen a dramatic impact from the increased use of social media. I’m not talking about more or less fundraising dollars, or new programs – I’m talking about the way social media uses, relies on even, a human face of organizations. Personal profiles, direct communication, authentic conversations. These are all aspects of our work that  have changed dramatically and rapidly. This panel session included presentations from: Amy Boroff (Development Director, Junior Achievement of NJ), Brittney Gilbert (VP of Marketing and Outreach, Modest Needs Foundation), and Laura Brahm (Web Officer, Open Society Foundations).

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• Conference website
• Live stream video
• hashtag: #BrandsConf

Location: Online

Topic: Podcast: How Nonprofits Can Use LinkedIn

Description:  In this month’s edition of Social Good, Allison Fine, the host, interviews Amy Sample Ward, community development manager at TechSoup Global, and Estrella Rosenberg, founder and executive director of Big Love Little Hearts in Chicago and author of the blog Adventures in Philanthropy. Ms. Sample Ward and Ms. Rosenberg discuss how nonprofits are using LinkedIn and offer recommendations about the best LinkedIn groups for nonprofit professionals who want to connect with other people involved in efforts to promote the common good.

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• Listen to the Podcast

Location: Online

Topic: Social Media Basics

Description:  Social media tools provide a lot of opportunities to make local, offline connections and build community. This webinar will introduce some best practices, strategies, and next steps for getting started with social media for you organization.

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• Washington Access Fund,
• Slides,
• Blog post with slides and resources

Location: Readytalk

Topic: Tools and Options for Selecting Social Media for Your Organization

Description:  The hardest part of getting started with social media is figuring out what tools your organization should use. How do you work through all the possibilities, hype, and data to decide which channels actually make sense for your organization? Look no further than this webinar series, “The Social Media Decision-Maker’s Toolkit”, brought to you through an Idealware & NTEN partnership. Over the course of 5 trainings, we’ll take the mystery out of the process and walk you through the creation of your own social media strategy, step by step.  I’ll contribute to this webinar as a guest speaker weighing on tools and options.

Related Links:

• The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide
• Event details and resources

Location: Phone & online chat

Topic: Questions, conversation and ideas about communications for nonprofits

Description:  This month’s Communications Roundtable focuses on all those messages, appeals and campaigns that stack up this time of the year. What’s appropriate, when to send, and what works? How to use holiday-related language, which stories to highlight, how to encourage the community to action when it is a cold and busy season?  This is an opportunity for you highlight your work as well as get feedback from others about end of year actions. Join me with your questions and your examples to share!

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• NTEN Roundtables
  

Location: London, UK (via video)

Topic: Online Campaigning and Co-Creation

Description:  This Third Sector Foresight seminar, run in collaboration with Campaigning Effectiveness, will focus on how charities and community groups will be campaigning in the future. We will also consider how changing expectations of participation might affect how organisations campaign in the future, and explore how this trend links to social media use.

Related Links:

• NCVO
• Event information
• Future Focus guide: What will campaigning will be like in 5 years’ time?
• Online discussion forum
• Video interview: Role of co-creation

Location: Online

Topic: More than just a community: Using communities to reach your program goals

Description:  Your nonprofit has a presence on Facebook or maybe your own private online community.  Engaging your network to create deeper connections and get your message out is important, but have you thought about how you might use social networks to deliver your programs? In this webinar, you’ll learn: How community engagement and program delivery can work together; About case studies of other nonprofits using social networks for program delivery; Where to find resources to create your own social programs.

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• Event information
• Slides & Notes (hint – use the “notes” tab on the slides to get all the speaker notes!)

Location: Washington, DC, USA

Topic: What’s the True Value of Social Media?

Description:  Everywhere you turn there are tons of great stories about organizations doing wonderful things online to build communities and engage their supporters through Social Media. But what is it all for? We’ve all heard the sayings “If you build it, it will come”, “the value  of Social CRM”, other concepts around understanding what is the value of Social Media. In this session, we’ll explore the notion that the real value of Social Media is not only in the experience of the community itself, but also in having a greater understanding of how your supporters are engaging with your online communities. This information can be invaluable to both marketers and fundraisers as they attempt to communicate to these engaged members of their community.

Related Links:

• Event information
• Blackbaud
• Session hashtag #socialvalue
• Blog post with slides and links