Submitted by Jordan Viator, of Connection Café Hundreds if not thousands of online tools are available to help nonprofit organizations with online communication. What tools do you think will be the best and easiest for nonprofits to use in 2009? This article was originally posted on Connection Café at [link] by Jordan Viator: Jordan Viator is the Interactive Communications Manager at Convio, and manages the Connection Cafe blog, all things new and social media related and all the company's corporate Web sites. ...Tags:

Jordan Viator writes works for Livingston Communications and leads their social good efforts. a writer and trainer who covers all aspects of nonprofit communications, including annual reports. In December, Fast Company published an article called " The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 " featuring about a dozen amazing women who work in the Web 2.0 world.

Author: Jordan Viator Earlier this year Molly posted 7 quick tips to taking action quickly in times of need and numerous other resources and learnings have been put out since with the issue at top of mind for nonprofits and charities around the world (see: 5 Social Media Lessons From the Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort by Geoff Livingston, Helping Haiti: Places to Donate, Creative Fundraising Ideas and Being a Smart Donor by Britt Bravo, How to Communicate in the Shadow of Disaster -- Guidelines for Respectful but Effective Outreach by Nancy Schwartz , The Social Media Response

Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ". "With responses from hundreds of people throughout the nonprofit industry, we pulled together insights, determined the main areas where nonprofit organizations and professionals are focusing and created a guide chock full of lessons learned, priorities and real world examples of how other nonprofits have achieved the goals many have set in place for 2009," said Jordan Viator of Convio . Ultimately, Convio has put together a useful guide for nonprofits

EcoScribe Communications Jordan Viator Jordan Dossett Over 900 of you have already registered for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference . You're registering at a record-breaking pace, and we can't wait to get the whole community in one room this April. But we also know that the economy has made it impossible for some our members to join us, so we've been raising scholarship money to send up

And then stay tuned the first week in January when we announce winners. Jordan Viator is the Interactive Communications Manager at Convio, and manages The holidays are in full swing, and in between the last minute shopping, shopping, out-of-town guests, and end-of-year nonprofit campaigns, most of of

ConnectionCafe : Connection Cafe has a quite a few Gen Y bloggers - Taylor Shanklin, Misty McLaughlin, Brandy Reppy, Lacey Kruger and Jordan Viator I only use email to communicate with old people , by Jeremiah Owyang Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, I attended the " Twenty-Something Meet Up " at the BlogHer Conference. Why did I go?

Twitter Focus Group: Jordan V from Convio calls Twitter an unofficial focus group! "If really help your outreach and communication efforts." Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008) Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. A place to quickly get a range of responses

Author: Jordan Viator Seth Godin wrote an interesting blog post yesterday entitled “ The problem with non ” that has definitely sparked a bit of conversation. The crux of his post: nonprofit organizations haven’t bothered to “to show up in a big way” in new marketing and communications efforts – namely social media from fear of change . Seth writes “Take a look at the top 100 twitter users in terms of followers. Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action.

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron!   How is it that not for profits are managing to use communications technologies to rock social change--when they've got pennies to spend? Generation Y and the Future of Nonprofit Communications   Generation Y engages more frequently and deeply with nonprofits The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event.  The final program is done through