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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

This means that sewage spills into rivers and streams, contaminating drinking water and causing disease. Part of working in the social impact space means thinking about the big picture, the long-term goals, and the multi-year strategy. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org billion people lack access to toilets.

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Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm not as creative as Chris Brogan who wrote about 2008 needs or CogDog Blog's Top Zero List. My desk, pictured above, has never been this clear and uncluttered. What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" Or following the twitter streams and blogs posts of people like Pistachio and Connie Reece.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards. A visitor who wants a picture of "mom with the giant penis statue" wants something that the museum is not selling. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop.

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Developing a Social Media Plan: Lessons from Election 2008

NTEN

Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. As agents of social change, there is a great deal the nonprofit sector can learn from Election 2008. Go Mobile: Mobile applications have surged in this 2008 and some predict it will make the difference in the election's outcome. For the first time in U.S. Tools you can Use.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Live Video Streams.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

He masterfully abstracted meaningful data from the numbers and constructs a picture that pays a deeply personal and loving tribute. As one example, you can view the building where Daum is located now, under construction in 2008. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life. Usahidi means testimony.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". link] com/2008/07/02/tweetup-blood- drive/. link] com/2008/07/05/blood-drive- tweetup-a-success/. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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