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Beth Kanter this week cited 10 examples of thought leadership from foundations: Share history (Detroit Foundation) Talk vision and mission (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) Share important research (Kauffman Foundation) (Hewlett Foundation) Retweet useful links shared by colleagues (Greater Cincinnati Foundation) Recruit job candidates (MacArthur Foundation) Important program deadlines (Hawaii Community Foundation) Reveal field insights (Columbus […]
Charity 2.0: How to address scaling and cause fatigue?
Photo by Seerjith CNET’s Caroline McCarthy published an article called “Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0” based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks. (Disclaimer: I am on an advisory group for Think Social and I’m a huge fan […]
Best new Twitter tool: HootSuite 2.0
Guest post by Chris Abraham Abraham-Harrison Back in the earlier days of third-party Twitter apps (just a few months ago, actually), a few very effective web-based services got my attention: SocialToo, TweetLater, and HootSuite. Sad thing was, while they were all very powerful services, they were all poorly designed, very hacked together, and fugly. Enter […]
Good.ly: a tiny url service for charity
Good.ly: a url shortener to benefit charity from JD Lasica on Vimeo. During the Traveling Geeks‘ visit to London last week, I twice met Alicia Navarro, founder and CEO of Slimlinks, an automated affiliate marketing service for blogs and websites. During our talk she mentioned a little-known service that deserves wider visibility: good.ly. In this […]
Using Twitter for a global conversation
Over the last few months, we have seen Twitter serve the global community by playing an important role in communications – whether it’s finding new friends (#FollowFriday), or telling the world about your government/election/political state (#IranElection), whether it’s having a conversation together (#4Change), or non-linearly replacing your RSS feed. What do those # mean? That’s […]
