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Eight Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make When They First Join Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most of these mistakes can be avoided by simply spending 10 minutes setting up your Twitter Profile or by getting some Twitter training. 1) Following others without having yet uploaded an avatar. Many will also think you’re a spammer and will simply ignore your profile or block you.

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not everyone is a natural-born Twitterer, and it may take time to find the right person at your nonprofit to be the voice(s) behind your Twitter avatar, but it’s worth the investment of resources. As with Facebook in 2007 and Twitter in 2008, the early adopters began experimenting with location-based communities in 2009.

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where Twestival Global focused all of its energy on one cause, on one day; Twestival Local, taking place the weekend of 10-13 September 2009, has the potential to impact hundreds of causes. I don’t have a Livestrong band on my Twitter avatar because it is the cool thing to do.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. If you'd like to participate, I have 10 FREE PASSES to give away.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

In ways beyond Marx’s most vivid nightmares, the poor and dispossessed now unwittingly train the very machines built to track their movements and terrorise their communities, or else replace their role in the labour process. The LAPD has used the software around 30,000 times since 2009, often to defend richer enclaves from ‘gang crime’.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Western audiences came to know Iran through the 2009 election, the internet had been the place where you could find politics happening inside Iran when in person it was very hard there. This is politics – we need the good and the bad; the cyber army, the 10,000 bloggers claimed to be trained by the national guard, etc.

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