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Twitter for Nonprofits: Presentation for the 140-Character Mission event

Amy Sample Ward

This Wednesday, MIT and Tie-Boston are hosting The 140-Character Mission: Social Media & Entrepreneurship event. What happens when marketing evolves from broadcast to conversation, fundraising changes from large donors to e-microdonations, or collaboration moves from sweaty basements to vast social networks?

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Join me at the “140 Character Mission” event

Amy Sample Ward

iE Boston Marketing and TiE Boston Social Entrepreneurs present: The 140-Character Mission: How Social Media Revolutionizes Social Entrepreneurship. Ken George | Head of marketing and new media | WBUR Boston | www.kenrgeorge.com (@ kengeorge ). Tags: social media entrepreneurship conference events twitter socialmedia.

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TechSoup joins the #ALSIceBucketChallenge

Tech Soup

From local athletes and community members in Boston it quickly became a national movement. However, the backlash to it is gaining momentum and it's being tagged as slactivism. Late July, a former college baseball player and ALS patient Pete Frates , put out a request to his friends of Facebook, and the movement took off.

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It's Your Content -- Take Control of It!

NTEN

When you broadcast your message on all of these channels, you are in fact extending and strengthening your brand. He has also spoken at FS/TEC, Boston University, The Center for Nonprofit Management, Network For Good, Pepperdine University and others. Whatever you say on your web site must be reflected in your newsletter and your blog.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

The cookie-cutter phenomenon started in the 70s because people have seen Boston [Children’s Museum] and seen the Exploratorium and they want one in their neighborhood. And that what’s happened with the revolution at Boston—everyone else thought we were cute and inconsequential. So if he’s serious about it, he can attract money.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

PT currently has fellowships in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem -- and will be expanding next year to Europe and other cities in North America. . PT also broadcasts some of the events using livestream.com. Tags: Community CRM International Newsletter NPTech NTEN. We remain inspired by them.

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Some Thoughts on Livestreamed Interviews, Engagement, Book Winners, and Finger Puppets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

that lets anyone with an inexpensive web camera and internet connection to broadcast to the world. I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv