Social Media & Online Engagement for Nonprofit Boards

Are you fully optimizing social media and online tools with your board? Online strategies are not just for fundraising anymore! Digital skills are quickly becoming a fundamental part of all nonprofits communications and interactions, so it is essential that you integrate digital skills and platforms across the entire organization and into every area of your program’s business model. This includes board engagement. You will discuss how you can match your board members’ responsibilities with different social media and online platforms; identify the first steps for your board to engage with social media and create a culture of continuous learning and experimenting in your organization. At the conclusion of this presentation, you will:

– Understand how social media can be an important tool in your board’s work
– Realize why having your Board engage with social media demonstrates that your program has a culture of continuous learning; and
– Identify first steps and pathways to grow your Board members’ engagement with platforms that best fit their role on your Board.

This is event is a $10 investment for members of the Dan River Nonprofit Network (check our Member Directory) and a $25 investment for non-members. If you would like to join the Network for this year to get this rate and future discounts, click here. (Organizational membership ranges from $35 – $200). Coffee, snacks and refreshments will be available!

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This session will be presented by Jeanne Allen, an expert in board and leadership development, strategic planning, change management, volunteer management, and social media strategy. Jeanne is passionate about effective nonprofit management and leadership, and building relationships with and between all the stakeholders: volunteers, members, staff and board leadership. Additionally, Jeanne is an Instructor in the Duke University Nonprofit Management Certificate Program (NC) where she teaches Board Development and Governance, Strategic Planning, Social Media Strategy and Policy for Nonprofits, and Volunteer Engagement. Currently, she is a Newswire Contributor for Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) daily online journal. Jeanne is a faculty member of the Nonprofit Technology Certificate, offered by NTEN, teaching an online seminar on Volunteer Engagement, as well as presenting webinars for BoardSource, Nonprofit Web Advisor, Meals on Wheels America and Nonprofit Learning Labs. Jeanne is a BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer with expert knowledge of effective governance principles. Jeanne is a Certified Instructor in the Service Enterprise Program, sponsored by Points of Light Foundation. As a volunteer, she is a local organizer for NC Tech4Good, planning monthly meetings on technology topics for nonprofits. She has given presentations at the Virginia Fundraising Institute, the NC Philanthropy Conference (AFP), and the NC Center for Nonprofit State Conference among many others.