Download Idealware’s free guide to get a handle on Facebook, blogs & more Idealware, along with the New Organizing Institute and Trellon, just published The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. The guide helps you to decide how Facebook, Twitter, blogs, Flickr, YouTube and other channels fit within the marketing strategy of your nonprofit or social […]
Nonprofits
Diabetes Hands Foundation as a networked nonprofit
Elements of The Networked Nonprofit, image from Beth Kanter. Guest post by Manny Hernandez Diabetes Hands Foundation Beth Kanter’s new book, The Networked Nonprofit, co-written by Allison Fine, points out that social media tools integral to nonprofits fall into three general categories of use: Conversation starters Collaboration tools Network builders In this post, I’d like […]
Support my birthday campaign on Jolkona!
Help enterprising Colombia youths running an Internet cafe Today is my birthday, and in the tradition of other social media strategists working in the nonprofit space like Beth Kanter (I wrote about her last birthday campaign in January) and Geoff Livingston, I’d like to ask your help in making the day special for some enterprising […]
Crowdflower: Toward a world of crowdsourced labor
Crowdflower: Toward a crowdsourced world from JD Lasica on Vimeo. One of the most interesting start-ups that keeps popping up on my radar screen is Crowdflower, which connects nonprofits and companies with people around the globe looking to work on crowdsourced tasks. It’s a fascinating glimpse at future contract labor models and at how work […]
Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp coming up Aug. 14
Randi Zuckerberg and Eugenie Harvey at last summer’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp. Guest post by Beth Kanter Zoetica It has been a year since I’ve relocated to the Bay Area in California. The summers here are much less humid than on the East Coast, but the real treat is having the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp practically in my […]