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Mobile advocacy efforts are just beginning around the world. What are we learning from these emergent campaigns what works and what does not in using mobile phones to advance a cause or an issue? Of course, we think that advocacy organizations should start to pay serious attention to using mobiles in their work. There is […]
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A user’s guide to mobile activism
Guest post by Jed Alpert Founder, Mobile Commons In this guide, we’ll introduce you to the world of mobile activism and show you how you can take your organization mobile. (You can also download and print out the guide as a 16-page Word doc from Archive.org.) Mobile is a complex ecosystem, and it includes: • […]
8 nonprofit executives who use Twitter
Fred Krupp is the CEO of the Environmental Defense Fund Recently, BusinessWeek published a slideshow of CEO’s who use Twitter, noting the dramatic rise of CEO’s who use Twitter to clue customers in on new services, help them with questions about their products, and generally get a little bit personal with customers, business associates, and […]
A compendium of useful Twitter tools
Click to see larger image Flickr Photo by @briansolis and @jess3 Last October, Brian Solis created the definitive list of Twitter Tools, a handy list of Twitter helper applications by key categories. Given Twitter’s explosive growth and crossing the chasm to more mainstream adoption, the palette of Twitter tools has most definitely expanded as Brian notes […]
How celebrities can be a force for good
Recently the TV critic of the St. Petersburg Times asked for my thoughts about the migration of celebrities to Twitter over the past few months. Will it inevitably dumb down the service? Bring it into the mainstream? Make us want to move on to the Next Big Thing? Ashton Kutcher is closing in on 2 […]
