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Using Social Media to Engage and Recruit Volunteers

Volunteer Hub

Food Bank of the Southern Tier promoting volunteer opportunities and educational workshops. You can use it to broadcast your mission, create a community, reach donors, and to inform and recruit volunteers. Here are a few great examples of VolunteerHub clients increasing awareness around their volunteer programs on social media.

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example the Community Media Workshop's Ning Site which is used to complement their face-to-face training session. Community Media Workshop???s keeping workshop participants and trainers connected. During a social media workshop, trainers Demetrio Maguigad and Gordon Mayer covered a number of online tools with attendees.

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Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii - Live Blogging Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Roxanne Darling presenting Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop.    Because of the broadcast era, the relationship between a business and a customer became less personal.   Broadcasting AT large crowds doesn't work. Use it - and ask them why.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it will be shown in documentary footage in pretty much every other format: in limited theatrical release, on DVD, in short clips on the Internet and even via podcast on mobile devices. Every Memory Matters is expected to go live in January, 2012, when Granito is broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV. Perhaps not.

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Making Media Connections: Ning Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

These are arguably the most time-consuming of the "cheap" time options, but if you have staff members who are already using these social networks, you can quickly broadcast out to a large group of people (like Twitter) at infrequent points, and provide a place for that group to meet and interact with each other. Start a podcast.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

She spends a lot of time doing workshops, helping orgs with communications. But like I said, you could listen to her sharing wisdom on podcasts, and webinars, and events and fill, you know, hours of your day and it would be worth it. And every time you want to send a message to that same broadcast list, you can do it.