As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the pleasure to do a number of workshops in the area. Monday evening I had the pleasure of presenting a Networked Nonprofit mini-workshop for a group of about 50 local nonprofits and government […]
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7 ways for nonprofits to use mobile phones to raise funds
Tips for putting together a well-planned mobile fundraising strategy Guest post by Ben Rigby Co-founder, The Extraordinaries If you’re like most people working at a nonprofit, you probably had a “Holy Mobile!” moment in January 2010 when an outpouring of donations followed the devastating Haiti quake. This, you expected. But what you may not have […]
How your nonprofit can use Facebook Places
Facebook Places can create more awareness for your organization You may have heard that Facebook released a location-based tagging feature a couple of weeks ago called Places that works similarly to Foursquare or Gowalla. The basic idea is that Facebook users can share when and where they hang out with their Facebook friends (and sometimes the […]
Mother Jones’ move into social media
Mother Jones’ move into social media from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Publisher’s message to other nonprofits: Know your goals ‘If you know Mother Jones, you probably think of us as primarily a print magazine,” says publisher Steve Katz. “That’s not really true anymore.” For the past year, I’ve been working with Jon Funabiki of […]
40 hashtags for social good
Image by jeffisageek on Flickr Print out this cheat sheet to keep tab on the top tags • Editor’s note: We updated this article at 45 hashtags for social change. By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff Sending a tweet into the Twitterverse without a proper tag is like stocking a library with no regard to […]