During last week’s webinar on Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit , we used the Policy Tool for Social Media to create a rough draft of a policy. The online interview in the tool includes 12 questions, and I asked the 30 or so webinar participants to pick the answers via GoToWebinar polling.

Yesterday I attended a workshop organized by one of my favorite bloggers (and NTC roomie) Nancy Schwartz on how you deal with branding issues for your organization within social media. The panel featured Danielle Brigida, National Wildlife Federation; Felicia Carr, National Parks Conservation Association; and Wendy Harman, American Red Cross.

Lecture Boosting Your Board: Keeping your board motivated to fundraise during stormy times Presented by philanthropist Carole Haas Gravagno Drexel University’s Arts Administration Graduate Student Association Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6 – 8 PM Campbell Auditorium, Stratton Hall 32nd & Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, PA Free. Pretty neat.

Thanks to the 199 nonprofits who completed our most recent survey about what you’d like to see on the Nonprofit Marketing Guide webinar schedule for 2010. I promised to book the three most popular training topics on the list by the end of March, so here you go: Integrating Your Website, E-Newsletter, and Social Media Sites.

The US Department of Health and Human Services is amplifying and expanding the recall of food products containing possibly contaminated peanut butter and peanuts with a full social media block and tackle. And for those who are interested, the CDC and FDA are hosting a special webinar for bloggers regarding the recent Salmonella.

By Nonprofit Marketing Guide’s Media Maven, Claire “Voyant&# Meyerhoff. That was Grandma’s strategy for getting media attention when Grandpa manned the city desk phones at “The Olden Days News and Record.&# What does that mean for you, and how you go about getting media attention for your fine organization?

ASHA and Facebook The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association just surpassed 2,000 Facebook fans. Hubspot and Twitter Hubspot is leveraging Twitter to gather questions for their webinars. Everyone who tweets a question is spreading the word about both Hubspot and the webinar content to their followers on Twitter. Kudos!

If I offer to do the work for you for a fee, don’t give me a sob story about how you are a poor nonprofit (nearly everyone reading this blog is associated with a nonprofit so claiming poverty doesn’t make you stand out for special attention). Tags: Blogging Media Relations Nonprofit Communications Can we do a link exchange?

Beth Ann is a fund development and communications associate with The Arc of Atlantic County (New Jersey).  The Nonprofit Marketing Guide Webinar Series gives you the real-world, practical tips you need at a price you can afford. Tags: Media Relations Nonprofit Communications Online Tools nonprofit soundtrack radio PT) to 91.7

It’s a busy, busy week of training, starting with a free Nonprofit911 call from Network for Good on Tuesday, then a webinar on social media skeptics, an online fundraising workshop for AFP, and a conference closing plenary session via webinar. Convincing Social Media Skeptics: “Selling&# the Value of Social Media.