You can read it for free online (or download the PDF) and it includes case studies, how-to tutorials, and lots of information about various tools that may be appropriate for your organization (after you’ve identified your goals, audience, and so on). Social Media & Philanthropy. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

MB PDF) or learn more about it here. Health NGOs send dietary advice and information to people with eating disorders. Our friends at Ashoka ( previously ) recently created an excellent downloadable guide to using SMS (text messages) for social change. You can download the guide directly (1.1 read more.

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. Do you really need this sensitive donor information to perform your mission? quot;Why?"

NEW YORK – March 8, 2010 – In the aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Chile, nonprofit organizations raced to mobilize aid and plan recovery efforts, while also raising resources and funds to support their humanitarian programs in Chile. For more information, log onto www.AmeriCares.org.

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. Real-time is just as important.

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Source: Share Your Ideas.

As promised, here is the presentation available for download as a PDF File. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed? 05/26/2010: Don’t forget your content 05/24/2010: IE6 Is Dead. Web 2.0:

Many of us are familiar with PDF documents, so much so that Adobe is almost synonymous with the ubiquitous "portable document format" files. There are many differences between the free Reader version and the Pro version of Acrobat, but here are some key benefits and use-cases for nonprofits and libraries: PDF Creation. Convert to Word.

It arrives as a nice-looking 4-page PDF attachment from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (well, nice looking if you ignore the creative spelling and the fact that the typeface and font color changes with every paragraph). It then informs me that the "NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION and WILLIAM J. Full name. Country.

The perfect storm of YouTube ( and other video sharing sites ), cheap video camcorders, rapidly growing broadband adoption ( pdf ), and a seemingly endless number star-wars kids and dogs on skateboards has created a web where video is becoming ubiquitous. 05/26/2010: Don’t forget your content 05/24/2010: IE6 Is Dead. Long Live IE6!