bulletin board can be one of several things including: a place to post announcements online a place to create and participate in discussions (via threads, which are like discussion topics) And of course there are blogs and other comment-driven forums. participants (open to the public, or for a specific target audience, i.e.

Let’s get down to my top 10 list of things every nonprofit should know about social media and online communications. Enewsletters Still Work Enewsletters are still a valuable form of communications for most organizations. It’s where people go to gather news, resources and discuss issues. All great questions! Agreed!

Let's discuss what it means, how it works, where it can go. There are huge positives to tapping into these networks (which we've discussed here before), including connecting with visitors "where they are" and co-opting easy-to-customize applications for museum purposes. In this case, it's debatable. Maybe not. Some reasons include.

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. But is efficiency the most important thing? Be Helpful.

The upcoming Twitter discussion I blogged about on June 1 (see below) took place last Wednesday, here's my top impressions: First, you can see the full transcript here , posted by the event sponsor Ashoka. The Twitter discussion was substantive, and generated interest in our work amongst participants. Am learning a lot in the process.

Over the summer,  Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks.  . And where are the tensions?  

We call those assessment mechanisms metrics and often discuss how important a strategy for setting them and using them is. Tags: Communication I recently was able to spend an amazing evening enjoying one of my new fave artists, Habib Koité and his band Bamada , based in Mali. Create feedback loops and use them. While the "web 2.0"

We recently launched a couple of roundtable discussions - phone calls with an online chat component - for IT Staff and communications/marketing folks.  Today we met up with the marketing folks and had a great discussion about social media policies, facebook, communicating within your organization, and lots more. .

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 There’s no one moderating the discussion real-time and every comment is included.