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Technology and democracy: both great in theory, a little harder in practice. One of the key challenges is that one successful model doesn’t — by default — work somewhere else. For mobile techies, if we can’t easily ‘transplant’ a solution from one place to another, where does our “figure out what works” mantra leave us? […]
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Video tutorial: How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?
I caught a post on Twitter from Ian Wilker about feeding your Twitter stream with your Flickr activity. This is a great approach for businesses or non-profits that communicate their impact with images, but have limited time for social media marketing. This process seemed so easy, I decided to screencast (above) while I connect my […]
SEO: 9 tips for optimizing a nonprofit site
Search Engine Optimization isn’t black magic, so get your site to shape up Guest post by Dennis Yu CEO, BlitzLocal Most people treat Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as black magic. While there are unethical methods to inflate your search engine rankings — cloaking, doorways pages, link farms, “google bombing,” dupe content poisoning, keyword stuffing, and […]
Socialbrite releases Creative Commons plug-in
We’re happy to launch today with the news that our lead developer, Esteban Panzeri (above), is releasing a new WordPress plug-in to the WordPress community. It’s called Creative Commons Reloaded, and it lets individual blogs or group blogs assign Creative Commons licenses on a post-by-post basis. That’s especially useful at sites like Socialbrite, where some […]
Why Twitter won’t replace email marketing
Earlier this week, I spoke with an executive director at a large non-profit who wanted to know how she could replace email marketing with Twitter. They have been using email marketing as the prime way to engage current supporters, but had been less than desirable results in recent months. After spending considerable time discussing their […]
