Add-ons to make your blog more powerful & versatile Last week I attended a WordPress East Bay meetup in Oakland led by Podcast Asylum trainer Sallie Goetsch (at left in picture above). I’ve been an avid user of, and proponent of, WordPress since I began using the open source platform for all my blogs (Socialmedia.biz, […]
Archives for 2010
Social change & nonprofit calendar: March
Events guide for nonprofits & social change outfits Here’s our roundup of conferences and events scheduled in the nonprofit and social change sector for the month of March. For the full year, see: Calendar of 2010 social change conferences. Note that we’ve published a calendar of 2010 conferences in social media, tech and marketing on […]
The differences between Facebook Pages and Groups
The ultimate cheat sheet for nonprofits You may be curious how Facebook Groups can complement the work you’re doing with your Page. Or, you may have a Group and want to move your fans over to your Facebook Page. Or, you mistakenly created a Facebook Profile for your organization and now realize that you should […]
How are nonprofits using text messaging?
Organizations starting to use SMS as powerful tool for fund-raising We’ve just released a new report, Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmark Study, that offers the first-ever look at how organizations in the United States are using text messaging and how subscribers are responding. It shows that mobile phones are becoming increasingly popular as an advocacy and […]
How to set up an SMS campaign system
Mobile advocacy basics, from keyword response to mobile data collection Guest post by Melissa Loudon MobileActive S MS is everywhere, in an amazing diversity of applications. From enabling ‘instant protest’ in the Philippines, Spain and Albania, to election monitoring in Ghana, Lebanon, and Sierra Leone to HIV/AIDS education and support in Mexico and South Africa, […]











