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 […]
Archives for November 2009
Finally! An enlightened social media policy
Bread for the World spells out the opportunities for working together For the past few days I’ve been hip deep in social media policies, social media guidelines — the increasingly common rules of the road that companies and nonprofits are laying down for how In a perfect world, organizations could issue a policy like this: […]
Get free wifi, help three worthy causes
Last week, for a business trip to New York, I made my maiden voyage on Virgin America, largely because of the availability of wi-fi on the flight. I generally bring a stack of magazines or a good book, but for this trip I needed an Internet connection to finish my presentation. So I was tickled […]
How to turbo-charge your presentation
Improving your presentation skills from JD Lasica on Vimeo. If you give presentations or speeches in public — ranging from a nonprofit workshop panel to a keynote about a social cause — chances are that you could benefit from sharpening your presentation skills. I met Danielle Daly, co-founder of Rexi Media, at Blogworld Expo last […]
MySpace abandons Causes — what does it mean?
On Thursday, administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace. Due to the lack of activity on MySpace, we’ve decided to focus our efforts on the Causes Application on Facebook.” (See the full message here.) The message indicated that all Causes-related pages and […]