Questions for nonprofits regarding OSN
07:16, 8 December 2008
.. Posted in Volunteerism and Volunteer Management.. Link
Per some exchanges we had via email regarding my web page Evaluating Online Activities and my belief that online action should create & support offline action for it to be something of real benefit to nonprofit organizations, Andy Fryer's December Hot Topic is Exploring Online Social Networking. Together, at the end of his blog, we asked nonprofits to answer several questions:
- Is your organisation using OSN sites to promote itself? Which ones and how?
- If you have a profile on an OSN platform like FaceBook, is it your personal profile, or are you speaking as a representative of your organisation?
- What benefits have you seen from your organisation's use of OSN, or your use of it as a representative of your organisation? What benefits are you hoping for?
- Have you seen an increase in volunteers as a result of your activities? in donors? in clients? in event attendees?
- Have you met with others at your organisation to strategise about your organisation's OSN activities, so that these activities are a part of regular marketing activities, volunteer recruitment and support, client support and funding drives?
- Do you look at the OSN profiles of volunteers, clients, donors and others? Do you use OSN for screening purposes of new volunteers? Have you seen anything on a supporter's profile that's made you uncomfortable?
- Does OSN create any problems for you in keeping your personal online activities and your professional activities separate?
- Any ideas where OSN may head in the future?
- Any other thoughts you would like to share?
Jayne Cravens
