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Photo by WhatKnot This is day 6 of the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Today we’ll start digging in laying down the social media cable in your blog. The main goal with your blog is to be a platform for connection: your readers connecting with you, connecting with each other, […]
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Information into action: Africa and beyond
Two organisations I’ve had the pleasure of working with – Tactical Tech and Fahamu – have independently announced the release of a film and a book that cover different aspects of non-profit digital activism. Both are well worth a look. Info-activism.org, a Tactical Tech initiative, explores how rights advocates “use information and digital technology to […]
The most powerful social media tool out there. Period!
At Community Organizer 2.0, Debra Askanase just wrote a piece called Front and Backyard Conversations. In it, she talks about social media as a public platform –- a front porch, but also a private platform where “conversations continue, out of the public eye.” Front yard conversations are replies on Twitter, videos posted to YouTube, photos […]
Fundraising with social media — the right way
Wildlife Direct harnesses social networks to ‘secure a future for wildlife’ Last week I wrote about a pair of surveys that looked at social media and nonprofits. One came to the conclusion that social media was a waste of time; the other talked about strategic implications on how to be successful. If you want to […]
Bloggers: Please come through again for DonorsChoose
Social Media Challenge is a leading example of micro-giving When you think of organizations and nonprofits that have made effective use of Web 2.0 technologies to raise funds for a cause, DonorsChoose.org should be near the top of a very short list. And October is once again the month when bloggers step up to the […]
