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The Bill of Rights A brief guide for citizen journalists and bloggers Target audience: Journalists, bloggers, nonprofits, cause organizations, NGOs, general public. Guest post by Mitch Ratcliffe RatcliffeBlog There is much that bloggers can learn from journalists, who have learned how to cause the most trouble possible without landing in jail over the course of […]
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How the National Wildlife Federation uses social media
National Wildlife Federation from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Recently I had the chance to sit down with Danielle Brigida, social media outreach coordinator for the National Wildlife Federation, the enormously important nonprofit organization that inspires Americans to protect wildlife for our children’s future. They do that by combating global warming, protecting wildlife and wildlife habitats […]
99 foundations that actively use Twitter
Beth Kanter this week cited 10 examples of thought leadership from foundations: Share history (Detroit Foundation) Talk vision and mission (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) Share important research (Kauffman Foundation) (Hewlett Foundation) Retweet useful links shared by colleagues (Greater Cincinnati Foundation) Recruit job candidates (MacArthur Foundation) Important program deadlines (Hawaii Community Foundation) Reveal field insights (Columbus […]
Online community building: Gardening vs. landscaping
My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. You can read the post and join the conversation on SSIR or below, where I’ve republished the full post. My current job title includes the term “Community Builder” and I get asked nearly every day just what that means: How do you […]
Charity 2.0: How to address scaling and cause fatigue?
Photo by Seerjith CNET’s Caroline McCarthy published an article called “Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0” based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water reflecting on how the landscape has changed for fundraising on social networks. (Disclaimer: I am on an advisory group for Think Social and I’m a huge fan […]
