There are some terrific conversations going on over on the TechSoup Community Forum regarding nonprofits using social media, setting policies for online activities, and more. Go ask your questions for your own nonprofit, NGO, government agency, etc. to get your own questions crowd-sourced – and offer your own advice/commentary!
Here are followup questions and discussions to the recent webinar on using social media to recruit and support volunteers:
“How does one find a “great trusted social media volunteer?”
Lots of tips already in answer to this question – offer your own!
Volunteers updating your organization’s blog – appropriate?
What editorial guidelines do you need for this?
When do you delete Facebook posts?
When do you remove posts on your organization’s Facebook fan page? What do you deem to be ‘offensive’ posts—versus those that might be odd, semi-coherent or off-topic? And do you have a formal policy
how do I set up a facebook page for my organization without locking it permanently to a particular person
Very detailed answers already!
What are the best tags for nonprofits to use in their social media activities?
How to get the right people viewing your activities!
Did you miss the live webinar last week on Using Social Media to Support, Involve and Recruit Volunteers? Then enjoy this recording of the event (slides and audio).
More questions on TechSoup you might want to answer or view:
Is it a worthwhile organization for a nonprofit to document what software they have
- , what software everyone is using, etc., and to share this information in a deliberate, obvious way throughout the organization, so that everyone can know what resources the organization has?
Sending text messages to 50 non-smart phones
- “Anyone have a great, cheap or free resource for sending text messages to 10-50 cell phones at once from a web site or special application on a computer (not a smart phone)? I work with three different volunteer groups that want this ability, but each group is a mix of smart phone and cell phone users.”