1. Networked Leadership Skills:
Building Thought Leadership on Social Media
Module 1: Discovering Your Personal Brand
Beth Kanter , Master Trainer, Blogger, and Author
KDMC
January 28, 2015
2. Beth Kanter: Master Trainer, Author, and Blogger
@kanter
http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/uc-berkeley
3. Roll Call
Tina Boyes Akron Community Foundation
Tracy Burt Akron Community Foundation
Molly Kunkel Centre County Community Foundation
Carol Goglia Communities Foundation of Texas
Claire Hodges Communities Foundation of Texas
Cara Matteliano Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
Justine David Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
Kate French Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Roberta King Grand Rapids Community Foundation
Kelly Ryan Incourage Foundation
Shannon K Semmerling Incourage Foundation
Erica Fizer Legacy Foundation
Joan Vallejo Oregon Community Foundation
Sandi Vincent Oregon Community Foundation
Kristin Dunstan The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc.
Erin Dreiling The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc.
Rebecca Arno The Denver Foundation
Luann Lovlin The Winnipeg Foundation
Noah Erenberg The Winnipeg Foundation
Shelley Prichard Wichita Community Foundation
4. Course Overview
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will create or refine a personal brand or leadership
profile on Twitter that supports their professional development
goals and/or organization’s communications objectives
• Participants will learn the practical skills of writing great tweets,
professional relationship building Twitter, and the art of content
curation on Twitter.
• Participants will share tips and insights with each other as they
practice their skills with simple “homework” assignments.
Audience
• Community Foundations
• Participant List:
• http://networked-leadership-skills.wikispaces.com/Participants
5. Course Overview
Instructional Platforms
The course will be delivered through the following:
Course Meetings: The course content will be delivered through an
interactive webinar where the main concepts, examples, and home
work assignments will be shared and discussed. The course meetings
will be 60-90 minutes
Course Wiki: Resources, including slides, recording, and additional
reading and resources, will be available at:
http://networked-leadership-skills.wikispaces.com/
Twitter Hashtag: Participants will use Twitter hashtag #netlead for
“practice”
6. Schedule
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 1-2:30 PM PST
Module 1
Discovering Your Personal Brand on Social
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 – 1:00-2:30 PM PST
Module 2
Content Curation on Twitter: Deepening Expertise and Learning
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 1-2:30 PM PST
Module 3
Professional Networking and Relationship Building on Social
Channels
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1-2 PM PST
Module 4
Learning Culmination
7. AGENDA
OUTCOMES
Interactive
Peer Learning
Reflective
HASHTAG: #netlead
FRAMING
• Strategy Link
• Articulate personal
brand on Twitter
• Practice Writing
Great Tweets
Today’s Class
http://networked-leadership-skills.wikispaces.com/
• Why Build Your Personal
Brand or Leadership
Profile With Social
• Personal brand in service
of organizational strategy
• Uncovering Your
Authentic Personal Brand
• Writing Your Twitter
Elevator Pitch
• Writing great social
media Tweets and social
media updates that get
noticed
8. Why Build Your Personal Brand/Leadership Profile on Social
9. Why Build Leadership Profile On Social: Benefits
• Reach: Ability to reach a different audience than the
organization’s profile
• Humanize: People trust individuals more than organizational
brand
• Flexibility: Less formal or structured than organizational channels
• Less Risk: Staff are better champions for your organization than
outsiders
• Reinforces Expertise: Makes knowledge more visible
• Amplify Existing Work: Social amplifies the work you are already
doing in other ways
11. Turtle
• Profile locked down
• Share content with family and personal friends
• Little benefit to your organization/professional
Jelly Fish
• Profile open to all
• Share content & engage frequently with little censoring
• Potential decrease in respect
Chameleon
• Profile open or curated connections
• Content/Engagement Strategy: Purpose, Persona, Tone
• Increased thought leadership for you and your organization
Based on “When World’s Collide” Nancy Rothbard, Justin Berg, Arianne Ollier-Malaterre (2013)
What Kind of Social Animal Are You?
12. Reflection Questions
• What is your biggest
challenge navigating
personal and professional
boundaries on social
media? What is most
uncomfortable?
• How can you be more
comfortable being a
“Chameleon”?
15. Personal Brand in Service of Organizational Strategy
Audience:
Socially engaged public
Audience:
Journalists, Diplomats, and
Influencers
GOAL
Engagement
Support
18. The Goodman Theatre and Robert Falls
Audience:
Theatre Attenders
Theatre Ticket Buyers
Audience:
Artists, Arts Critics,
Arts Leaders
GOAL
Engagement
Sell Tickets
20. RWJF: Foundation Strategy
“We believe that striving
toward a culture of health
will help us realize our
mission to improve health
and health care for all
Americans. ”
GOALS
Inform
Behavior Change
Audience:
Grantees, Policy Makers,
Researchers, Practitioners
25. Reflection Questions
• What are the key objectives
of your foundation's
communications strategy
and organizational use of
social media?
• How can you leverage your
personal brand or leadership
profile in service of these
objectives?
28. Think and Write: Uncovering Your Authentic Personal Brand
• What’s your superpower? What do you
do better than anyone else?
• What do people frequently compliment
you on or praise you for?
• What is it that your manager, colleagues,
and grantees come to you for?
• What adjectives do people consistently
use to describe you – perhaps when
they’re introducing you to others?
• How do you do what you do? What
makes the way you achieve results
interesting or unique?
• What energizes or ignites you?
29. Turn It Into Your Elevator Speech on Twitter!
It’s accurate. One professional
description.
It’s exciting. One word that is not
boring.
It’s targeted. One niche descriptor.
It’s flattering. One
accomplishment.
It’s humanizing. One hobby.
It’s intriguing. One interesting fact
or feature about yourself.
It’s connected. Your organization,
hashtag or another social profile.
36. Write Your Elevator Speech
Answer these questions in 160
characters in your profile bio:
• What is your expertise?
• Why should someone follow
you?
• What hashtags or keywords do
you want to be associated
with?
• Visual: What cover and profile
image conveys your personal
brand?
47. Homework
• Update your Twitter Profile with an authentic elevator
profile
• Practice writing great tweets using the 7 ways to avoid
Twitter Writer’s Block – one great tweet per day and
use hashtag: #netlead
48. Next Class
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 – 1:00-2:30 PM PST
Module 2
Content Curation on Twitter: Deepening Expertise
and Learning
We will cover listening and sharing for learning on
Twitter
Hinweis der Redaktion
Networked Leadership Skills: Building Thought Leadership on Social Media
35 years, last 20 front row seat
Passion for teaching and learning, not just a job, taken me all over the world working thousands of NGOs on becoming networked nonprofits and use social media effectively
My greatest hope in writing a book about networks and measurement that nonprofits would improve their practice
While Visiting scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I didn’t just sit in the corner and write a book, I had the change to work closely with many of their grants to build capacity
I had 60 grantees testing the frameworks – chased after them – were able to implement, how would you change – and they developed a lot of the case studies
Honored that the book received the 2013 Terry McAdams award ..
But I think I had a bigger achievement than that – when Conant O’Brien talked about my red hat on national TV
Learning Objectives:
Participants will create or refine a personal brand or leadership profile on Twitter and LinkedIn that supports their professional development goals and organization’s communications objectives
Participants will learn the practical skills of writing great tweets and LinkedIn updates, professional relationship building on LinkedIn and Twitter, and the art of content curation on Twitter.
Participants will share tips and insights with each other as they practice their skills with simple “homework” assignments.
Audience
Community Foundations
Instructional Platforms
The course will be delivered through the following:
Course Meetings: The course content will be delivered through an interactive webinar where the main concepts, examples, and home work assignments will be shared and discussed. The course meetings will be 60 or 90-minute sessions.
Course Wiki: Resources, including slides and additional reading and resources, will be available at: http://networked-leadership-skills.wikispaces.com/
Private Facebook Group: Participants will have access to a private Facebook group to ask questions and share insights in between class meetings.
Twitter Hashtag: Participants will use Twitter hashtag #netlead for homework assignments
Syllabus: Overview
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 1-2:30 PM PST
Module 1
Discovering Your Personal Brand on Social
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 – 1:00-2:30 PM PST
Module 2
Content Curation on Twitter: Deepening Expertise and Learning
Date: Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 1-2:30 PM PST
Module 3
Professional Networking and Relationship Building on Social Channels
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1-2 PM PST
Module 4
Learning Culmination
Learning Objectives:
Participants will create or refine a personal brand or leadership profile on Twitter and LinkedIn that supports their professional development goals and organization’s communications objectives
Participants will learn the practical skills of writing great tweets and LinkedIn updates, professional relationship building on LinkedIn and Twitter, and the art of content curation on Twitter.
Participants will share tips and insights with each other as they practice their skills with simple “homework” assignments.
Audience
Community Foundations
Instructional Platforms
The course will be delivered through the following:
Course Meetings: The course content will be delivered through an interactive webinar where the main concepts, examples, and home work assignments will be shared and discussed. The course meetings will be 60 or 90-minute sessions.
Course Wiki: Resources, including slides and additional reading and resources, will be available at: http://networked-leadership-skills.wikispaces.com/
Private Facebook Group: Participants will have access to a private Facebook group to ask questions and share insights in between class meetings.
Twitter Hashtag: Participants will use Twitter hashtag #netlead for homework assignments
Syllabus: Overview
Building Your Leadership Profile With Social
Why build a thought leadership profile online:
For your organization, a leadership profile online for your executive director can help your organization reach a different audience that may not already be following your brand. Your CEO (and all employees for that matter) will be tapping in their professional networks.
Your logo alone is not enough to build trust for your organization’s brand, it requires a human face to humanize the brand, not a logo. CEOs are seen as experts on your brand and products, thus their opinions are extremely valuable and trusted by the people in their networks. Due to the more personal nature of professional networks, brand messages are shared more when they are shared by employees than when shared by the brand itself.
Your organization’s branded social channels will most likely have a formal and structured editorial calendar linked to your policy agenda and other communications objectives. Having your CEO use social in a separate channel gives you more flexibility, esp. with breaking news.
Your leader as a champion and personal brand for your organization is going to have less risk than external volunteers or champions. They understand the brand’s mission and value and they know your issues better than anyone else. Your CEO already understands your brand guidelines and will most likely operate within it.
Using social media isn’t just a distraction, it amplifies and enhances the work your CEO is already doing. Most nonprofit leaders have to keep up with their sector, field, or issues anyway – and openly sharing what they are reading – useful content and news with some analysis helps contributes to thought leadership – especially on social channels like Twitter where many reporters use it to source leaders for stories or policy makers (and their staff) are monitoring. If other leaders in your field are using social channels, easily connect for leadership conversations.
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If your nonprofit’s executive director or CEO a thought leader? Thought leaders drive conversations – online and off, influence others, and shape perceptions in their field. They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues.
It is no longer enough for your organization’s brand to lead through social media channels. Your organization’s CEO also needs to be connected on social to be effective as a thought leader. There are significant benefits to both the organization and the leaders themselves by building a leadership profile on social.
For the organization …
Reach different audience
The CEO and all employees for that matter will likely be reaching a different audience through their social channels – tapping their professional networks.
Humanize and build trust for organization brand
In a recent Gartner study, only 15 percent of people said that trust posts by companies or brands on social networking sites – a startling statistic when compared to the fact that the same
study found 70 percent trust brand or product recommendations from friends and family. Employees are seen as experts on your brand and products, thus their opinions are extremely valuable and trusted by the people in their networks. Due to the more personal nature of employee networks, brand messages are shared eight times more by employees are than when shared by the brand.
Flexibility in communications style
Your organization’s branded social channels will most likely have a formal and structured editorial calendar linked to your policy agenda and other communications objectives. Having your CEO use social in a separate channel gives you more flexibility, esp. with breaking news.
Less Risk
Your leader as a champion and personal brand for your organization is going to have less risk than external volunteers or champions. They understand the brand’s mission and value and they know your issues better than anyone else. Your CEO already understands your brand guidelines and will most likely operate within it.
Learning: Make Expertise More Visible
Most nonprofit leaders have to keep up with their sector, field, or issues anyway – and openly sharing what you’re reading – useful content and news with some analysis helps builds thought leadership – especially on social channels like Twitter where many reporters use it to source leaders for stories or policy makers (and their staff) are monitoring. If other leaders in your field are using social channels, easily connect for leadership conversations.
Enhance work already doing
Leaders are doing press conferences, keeping up with their field of practice, making public appearances and giving presentations, etc – social channels provide a way to amplify and enhance this work.
Professional learning
Using social channels to follow the news, especially when many news organizations have a “Twitter first” policy
But to reap the benefits, you have to understand how to navigate boundaries and your online reputation …
Before social networks and the Internet, it was fairly easy to put clear boundaries between work and personal lives – it was pretty black and white Public/Private and Personal/Professional.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_spivack/29407740/sizes/o/
But in today’s world, those boundaries are pretty blurred.
As employees of nonprofits increasingly interact with their professional contacts in online social networks that favor individual participation, such as Facebook or Twitter, they are likely to
experience a collision of their professional and personal identities. It’s one of the realities of living in a networked world – and as much as it makes feel uncomfortable – we have to accept it.
However, it doesn’t mean it has to be all bad.
Nonprofit CEOs (nd their employees) that develop expertise with boundary management and identity negotiation can experience many benefits but also challenges.
On one hand, as an individual you can now reach many new audiences – but the problem is that you don’t get the same physical and social cues that have guided out human interaction for centuries. On social channels, people don’t have to interact with you to develop an opinion of you as a person based on reading your social stream.
But, don’t let that scare you away, there are ways to manage it …
-Social media policy in place that clearly spells out who “owns” the personal brand
There are basically three ways to react ..
You can be a turtle …
You can be a jelly fish
Or a Chameleon
If you truly want to establish an effective leadership profile online that supports your organization’s work, you need to be a chameleon.
It takes more time, savvy, comfort – but you can start with small steps which I’ll take about in minute .. But first you need a strategy for your leadership profile that is complementary to your organization’s strategy .
Let’s look at how Chameleon’s manage their leader profiles on social ..
First, they know the audience they want to reach on different channels and where it overlaps with their organizations.
Maybe your organization wants to cultivate media and using Twitter might be a natural choice because so many reporters use it as a tool for research.
Maybe it is the policy makers you want to reach and many use Twitter ..
Next, what’s your purpose? How does social media enhance the work you are already doing?
Engage with peers?Educate influencers?Amplify organization’s messaging?
Persona – what is the image you want to convey?
ProfessorialInspiringAuthoritative
What tone is needed?
Tone
HumbleScientificInsiderSerious
How does this complement your organization’s social strategy?
https://twitter.com/kanter/status/555868668140089344
http://www.cooperationinternationalegeneve.ch/twitter-and-unhcr
We have our institutional handle - @refugees with 1.3 million followers. That is obviously an astounding number of people to direct access to. But in addition, we encourage our spokespeople and public information colleagues to tweet under their own handle and about the work they are doing. As UNHCR's Chief Spokesperson, I try to lead by example by actively tweeting on@melissarfleming.
For our @refugees account, we aim to reach a broad spectrum of the socially engaged public, from "mommy bloggers' to political activists, to humanitarians to celebrities. I aim to reach journalists and diplomats and other influencers on my@melissarfleming feed.
Here’s an example from the Goodman Theatre - - they have an org profile on Twitter, but their artistic director does too
Both support of the goals of engaging audiences and selling tickets …
They do this with different styles/tones of communication.
Robert Falls is a conversationalist, talking about the art with a more informal tone.
The brand is more formal and focused on the goal of promotion.
Questions to Ask When Uncovering Your Personal Brand
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williamarruda/2013/11/12/7-questions-to-ask-when-uncovering-your-personal-brand/
In the end, why are you here? Are you working to educate your audience, inspire action, or amplify messages? This should be identified in your social media support plan …. But you should own it. Make it your own.
Your personal brand will topple if it sits on a foundation that’s not based in truth or perceived as genuine. And you’ll be worn out too. Anne Morrow Lindbergh once said “The most exhausting thing you can be is inauthentic.” Being someone you’re not is hard work. It takes effort to play a role. Just ask the actors on Broadway who play their part 8 times a week.
Because branding is based in authenticity, you need to understand who you are and what makes you compelling to your target audience – the people who are making decisions about you. As you think about what makes you YOU, ponder these questions:
What’s your superpower? What do you do better than anyone else?
What do people frequently compliment you on or praise you for?
What is it that your manager, colleagues, and grantees come to you for?
What adjectives do people consistently use to describe you – perhaps when they’re introducing you to others?
How do you do what you do? What makes the way you achieve results interesting or unique?
What energizes or ignites you?
Think and Write: Take a few minutes to think about these questions and jot down some answers
Image Source:
Creative Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foshydog/5019323386/
What’s Twitter Elevator Speech,
Your Twitter Elevator Speech
http://www.bethkanter.org/1-step-01/
An elevator speech is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value.
The name "elevator pitch" reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span of an elevator ride, or approximately thirty seconds to two minutes and is widely credited the editors at Vanity Fair. The term itself comes from a scenario of an accidental meeting with someone important in the elevator. If the conversation inside the elevator in those few seconds is interesting and value adding, the conversation will continue after the elevator ride or end in exchange of business card or meeting.
Some communications training has you commonly rehearse and use elevator pitches to get your point across quickly.
Your profile on Twitter is your elevator speech.
Your Twitter elevator speech is what goes in your bio
A strong bio can lead to more followers, and is an ideal way to introduce you to others. It helps others know what to expect if they follow you. You have 160 characters to present a concise summary about yourself that may include your title @foundation handle, and keywords if you have a crisp, compelling purpose around the content you share and your areas of interest.
Your Twitter elevator speech is what goes in your bio
A strong bio can lead to more followers, and is an ideal way to introduce you to others. It helps others know what to expect if they follow you. You have 160 characters to present a concise summary about yourself that may include your title @foundation handle, and keywords if you have a crisp, compelling purpose around the content you share and your areas of interest.
How do they express their authenticity?
What gets your attention?
Your Twitter elevator speech is what goes in your bio
A strong bio can lead to more followers, and is an ideal way to introduce you to others. It helps others know what to expect if they follow you. You have 160 characters to present a concise summary about yourself that may include your title @foundation handle, and keywords if you have a crisp, compelling purpose around the content you share and your areas of interest.
How do they express their authenticity?
What gets your attention?
https://twitter.com/philkil
Image Source:
Creative Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foshydog/5019323386/
What’s Twitter Elevator Speech,
Your Twitter Elevator Speech
http://www.bethkanter.org/1-step-01/
An elevator speech is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a person, profession, product, service, organization or event and its value.
The name "elevator pitch" reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary in the time span of an elevator ride, or approximately thirty seconds to two minutes and is widely credited the editors at Vanity Fair. The term itself comes from a scenario of an accidental meeting with someone important in the elevator. If the conversation inside the elevator in those few seconds is interesting and value adding, the conversation will continue after the elevator ride or end in exchange of business card or meeting.
Some communications training has you commonly rehearse and use elevator pitches to get your point across quickly.
Your profile on Twitter is your elevator speech.
Jeremey Caplan, who is the director of education Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism …
Writer: Write concise TweetsListener: Find, listen, and learn from relevant sourcesSharer: Share links and resources that are relevant, your expertise, or link to your authentic personal brandLeader: Lead and participate in Twitter discussionsEngager: Retweet, ask questions, say thank you, build relationships with your network
Inspirational Quote
Something Funny
Two words
RT with Added Value or Humor
Two Words
https://twitter.com/paulocoelho/statuses/468055687936102400
https://twitter.com/iTweetFacts/status/400264657107451905
Inspiration Quote
https://twitter.com/alaindebotton/statuses/460087635353296897
Tips for Using Quotes (Including finding sources of quotes)
http://www.bethkanter.org/quote/
Something Funny
https://twitter.com/CIA/statuses/486254611250937857
How to be hilarious on Twitter
http://www.fastcocreate.com/1682943/how-to-be-hilarious-on-twitter-from-a-writer-who-tweeted-her-way-to-tv
RT w/ Value or Humor
https://twitter.com/Nedra/status/16900299419