Iwas honored to be the keynote speaker for the Bay Area Microsoft/TechSoup Global Connection Day last week. My presentation on Slideshare takes the audience through my Principles for Effective Social Media. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture, and each principle is illustrated with some practical and tactical advice that ladders up to […]
Archives for May 2010
How to record & edit a 2-minute audio interview
A step-by-step guide to using Audacity to get a polished audio Target audience: nonprofits, NGOs, educators, citizen journalists, individuals who require media skills Guest post by Adam Hyde and Adam Willets Tactical Technology Collective This is one in a series of training articles that convey new media skills to organizations. It’s simple to record […]
Behind the success of 10 top Causes
At the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, one of thousands of causes on Causes.com. Campaigns, timely updates, passionate supporters add up to move the needle By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff Lots of nonprofits and social change organizations have used Causes (formerly Facebook Causes) to raise funds and amplify their efforts, but the vast majority of them haven’t […]
Openbook: A new way to search on Facebook
An article on TechCrunch last week shared information about a new Facebook search engine called Openbook at youropenbook.org. Apparently, two developers built the site to demonstration how public our Facebook information really is. Search gap filled? In a perfect world, where everyone understood Facebookâs privacy settings and was OK with how Facebook used their public […]
Short takes on 10 worthy projects
Watchitoo, DoGood, ClassWish, Zynga, business ethics & more We’ve been deluged recently with updates and rollouts of interesting new sites, tools and services. There’s no way to fully do them justice, but they deserve attention, so here’s a roundup of eight worthy projects and websites that have crossed our desk: Watchitoo: Collaborate […]