Holly Ross, executive director, NTEN (Photo by JD Lasica) Superguide to events for nonprofits & social change organizations Following is a roundup of conferences and events scheduled in the nonprofit and social change sector in 2010, with a few educational events tossed in as well. If you know of other must-attend events, please add them […]
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How to grow your blog with social media for social good
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Like many kids, I was involved in the Boy Scouts. The scout leader was Mr. Pertrazzio, who was an electrician. Now, I’m sure he loved being involved with the Boy Scouts. But when you think about it, he […]
How to bridge professional and social networks with social media
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Guest post by Chris Garrett chrisg.com Many people find networking to be challenging. Being an introvert, real world networking is particularly daunting for me, but my geeky side allows me to use social media to be a much […]
How to make social media ‘wheelchair accessible’
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. Social media gives voices to individuals marginalized and ignored by traditional media, enabling the world to hear these voices for the first time in history. However, as in the physical world, the online world poses many barriers to […]
3 Twitter shortcuts: SocialOomph, Twitterfeed, CoTweet
This is part of the series the 31 Day Challenge To Optimize Your Blog With Social Media. In this short screencast, I’ll show you a few automated Twitter techniques that are probably grounds for you taking out a restraining order against me. We’ll begin with SocialOomph (formerly TweetLater), a way to auto-follow back the people […]











