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Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” This was one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book, “ The Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author Alison Fine back in 2008-09. I noticed a big change in 2010, the year the book was published. ” Does this signal that working in networks been become normal in the nonprofit sector?

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Network + Self-Organizing + Location + Data Visualization = 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been playing in a sand box to explore online collaboration/social media tools and how they support network weaving. The big ah ha for me during our reflection that was that effective online collaboration tools for working in a networked way can't have top-down control interaction design.

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Best Nonprofit Strategies to Utilize in 2010

Care2

As nonprofits scramble to meet their year-end fundraising goals, this is also a great time of year to reflect on what online fundraising and advocacy strategies worked well in 2009. But what's coming up in 2010? Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy: In 2010, nonprofits need to get serious about mobile outreach.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 2 2010

NTEN

Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). For some Zen time, read Michelle Murrain 's reflections on coding -- why coding today is so different. Heads up: The 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards is on! Who's your Mayor? than when she started. .

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My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, my three words were Networked, Generosity, and Full of Life. Last week, I was noodling around with the idea of professional learning in a connected age : How professionals learn using social networking tools to improve their effectiveness at work. I’ve been doing this for two years now.

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Reflections from the Communications Network Conference: Wisdom of Crowds – Succeeding in Practice?

Forum One

Our CEO recently attended the Communications Network 2010 Conference. His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. Hey – foundations used to be nervous about social networking, too! We are now cross posting it here to share with our readers.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Learn basic HTML.