You can use the rule of thirds to answer the question.   " What percentage of the market budget pie should be allocated to Social Media? "  The inspiration for that post came from Colin Delaney of ePolitics and Laura Quinn from a workshop presented at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp by (Resource list and Powerpoint here ). MORE >>

The Community Media Workshop is a media organization in Chicago that trains nonprofits to tell their stories to the media, tips sensitive journalists to the importance of these stories, and tries to create better relationships between the media and the diverse communities in Chicago. Community Media Workshop???s Compared to other ???out MORE >>

I have an icebreaker for workshop coming up that is Twitter on Paper. Links to media you create - video is fun, podcasts, perhaps interviews that are posted online about you, etc. just discovered this excellent primer to using Twitter called Tweeting for Companies 101 by Tara Hunt. The point is not to just talk about yourself. okay). MORE >>

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go. MORE >>

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go. MORE >>