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. 8221; , Rob Pierson, Online Communications Director for Congressman Mike Honda and soon to be New Media Director for the House Democratic Caucus, said that sending enewsletters to your online list is the best bang for your Last week I spoke on a couple of great panels at the Politics Online Conference about technology, social media and how Congress is trying to adapt to the ever-changing world wide web aka the “series of tubes” as former Senator Ted Stevens so hilariously described it.

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. It's not an open space for discussion or communication; instead, it's a network of private spaces where kids and families have tools available to continue their museum experience. Usually, when I start posts with a question in the title, it's a cheat. The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs

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.   I'm so glad she did because for a while I've been wanting to better understand how a social media strategy can best align with overall communications strategies and where the nuances of implementation may different.  Remixing Social Media Strategy Game View more presentations from kanter .

We also analyze the information sources used by different types of bloggers, the key to impacting discussions on your issues. So There are millions of blogs online, from those hosted by highly influential media personalities to high school students communicating with their friends. To create a health care policy network analysis, we developed a list of semantic markers of the discussion, including words and phrases, specific URL's and tags John Kelly and Ken Deutsch, Morningside Analytics Social Social media can be the handiest new gadget in an organization's tactical

Manage the messaging to the key points, and make clear the areas that shouldn't be discussed in public. Monitor the discussion , and proactively mentor (as opposed to chastising) staff who stray in ways that violate the policy, or seem capable of doing so. The Case for Transparency Transparency assumes that multiple voices are being heard; that honest opinions are being shared, and that organizations aren't sweeping the negative issues under the virtual rug. The Yes, we do Twitter requests! To break down that tweet a bit, @kanter is the well-known Beth Kanter of Beth's blog . @pearlbear is former Idealware blogger and current contributor Michelle Murrain , and Beth asked us, in the referenced blog post , to dive a bit into internet security and how it contrasts with internet privacy concerns.

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 content. David steered me to their most popular discussion board , on which visitors are prompted to share their memories of reading the diary of Anne Frank. Specifically, the page says: Share Your Thoughts: Do you remember the first time you read the Diary of Anne Frank? Please share your memories of reading that book,

The upcoming Twitter discussion I blogged about on June 1 (see below) took place last Wednesday, here's my top impressions: First, The discussion quickly became multi-channeled in substance, but single-channeled on Twitter -- so you had to follow pretty closely to who was responding to which previous comment. I find the transcript less interesting than the real-time discussion was, when I was intently watching the comments and responding First, you can see the full transcript here , posted by the event sponsor Ashoka . Its nice to have a transcript packaged, though

We call those assessment mechanisms metrics and often discuss how important a strategy for setting them and using them is . Tags: Communicatio 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. You likely do not read this blog for its concert reviews (and if you do, you have likely been pretty frustrated to date), so, other than to say it was a fantastic show, I want to focus on two web management principles that struck me while taking in the African grooves.

uses AJAX and XMPP to let users perform the communication functions of social networking (messaging, person to person sharing) through an "apps in the browser OS" metaphor. Olark is an XMPP system that puts a chat window on top of any webpage you publish and ties the communication with page visitors in to your favorite IM client. Discovering that a topic has been discussed online isn't Marshall Kirkpatrick , ReadWriteWeb [Ed Ed Note: This piece was originally published on ReadWriteWeb .

You can also read an interview with him discussing the impacts of the real-time Web on social impact organizations.) ...Tags: Tags: Collaboration Community Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Communication Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared When When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly.