In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. Whether your updating your Twitter account with Tweetie , recording a video with your iPhone and uploading it to your YouTube channel within minutes, or posting a Status Update to your organization’s Facebook Page, the news cycle has changed forever. Tags: Facebook Flickr LinkedIn Mobile Technology MySpace Twitter YouTub As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change,

Just got a press release this morning announcing the launch of the YouTube Nonprofit Program ! YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. those with 501c3 tax filing status) that register for the YouTube Nonprofit Program to receive a free nonprofit specific YouTube channel where they can upload footage of their work, public service announcements, calls to action and more. YouTube Nonprofit Program participants will receive: • A premium channel on YouTube that serves as a nonprofit’s hub for their uploaded videos.

You might even want to post a comment (and link back to the museum website). Look for photos of you on Flickr and videos about you on Youtube . Search for people or institutions of interest to follow, and the followers will come. post images from museum events on Flickr, upload videos from events on YouTube. On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums.

What is a Museum without YouTube? Looks like reviewed the YouTube channels for museums . I The IMA has a YouTube Channel too that uses a slightly different approach. Beyond launch: Museum videos on YouTube [link] /mw2008/papers/hart/hart.html David sounds like a riddle. I couldn't think of a punch line can, you?

But the companies that run YouTube, Flickr, and other major Web 2.0 The same is true on YouTube, and on sites like Facebook, which are "walled gardens," you can't even easily export your user-generated content (friends, events, updates) outside of Facebook itself. The power to promote and feature preferred content. When you go onto a user-generated content site like YouTube, you don't just see a jumble of videos. I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?"

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You can always host things on Youtube but then you’ll lose control over the file if you’re looking for good site statistics. I’ve started working with more and more Wordpress-based nonprofit Web sites such as those at asianamericansforobama.com and apaforprogress.org , stepping in after the site has been set up. What follows is a checklist of common errors that I’ve seen that you can use with your site designer if your non-profit is creating a Wordpress site.

We’ve talked about the power of the Girl Effect video , which uses only typography and classical piano to make its point. It’s a very compelling piece, and has received a lot of attention exactly for its freshness and innovation. Well, Starbucks released a new ad during Saturday Night Live this past weekend that’s shockingly similar.

Example of gloomy messaging * The Ad Council's Don't Almost Give Campaign video on YouTube. Think about the last time you did something for a cause. Maybe you gave them money. Maybe you did a walk. Maybe you signed a petition.

He looks at Youtube as anthropologic study area. Mike Wesch Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology of Kansas State University does a fantastic overview of the culture shift. It is definitely worth watching. Mike presents a strong case that culture is shifting the way that people connect and build relations.