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With college students now back on campus, we thought this would be a good time to update our past articles on top tools and mobile apps for fall 2012. Thanks to Emily Sawtell and Angela Santiago of McGraw-Hill and Jessica Haswell of the Socialbrite team for their contributions to this roundup.
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7 top tools for content curation
By now you’ve likely heard of content curation, the process of collecting and cataloging the most useful or interesting things about a topic in order to share it for the common benefit. In part 1, Beth Kanter looked at 7 smart techniques for content curation. Today we’ll explore some of the best tools for doing so.
Use smartphones to capture events for your cause
Photographer Dan Chung’s Olympic smartphone photoblog setup. Take some tips from a pro photographer at the London Olympics Target audience: Photographers, nonprofits, cause organizations, foundations, NGOs, social enterprises, businesses, educators, journalists, citizen journalists, Web publishers. The 2012 London Olympic games were a chance for photojournalists from around the world to produce breathtaking images. One […]
6 ways to supercharge your Google Grants account
Editor’s note: One of the best-kept secrets in the nonprofit world continues to be Google Grants. If your non-profit fits Google’s criteria, you could be eligible for up to $10,000 a month in free Adwords. There’s one hitch, though. It’s hard to figure out how to spend anywhere near your $10,000 ad allotment because the […]
How to promote posts on your Facebook page
In May, Facebook rolled out a new Facebook page feature called Promoted Posts as a way to help you increase exposure for your organization’s page updates.
Promoted posts are labeled “sponsored” and show up in the news feeds — both Web and mobile — of people who like your Page. When fans interact with the post, it’s then shown to their friends.
