The purpose of this post is to discuss a basic yearly budget that encompasses setup costs, labor costs and online services. Tags: Strateg Lewis Kelley from the National Forest Foundation has asked how much it would cost for their organization to blog. Let’s do some of the basic math. Assuming that your site is not going

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics.  Discussion: everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog.  Can’t wait!

thought it would be useful to blog about how to create a strategy for using Before starting to create a strategy it makes sense to set a baseline. recently had a chance to discuss social media strategies with members of our Target Analytics Customer Advisory Board. Many of them expressed concerns that there is not an organization-wide For a while now I've been talking with a lot of nonprofits about using using social media and social networking in their organizations.

Blog posts about session discussions and interviews with participants: And Tags: Strateg We're doing some interesting work this week bringing the online dimension to a face-t0-face event. I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice."

Let us know your thoughts, share them with other people you think may be interested, and we’ll be putting them out more widely for discussion, additions and edits once we’ve figured out the right format. Tags: resources socialmedia strategy book nesta socialbysocia Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects.  It’s going to be called Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media.   One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics.  What else might you add or change? The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.  Source:  Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN .  

In this post, we'll discuss the current glamour child of social media, Twitter. Twitter Tags: Strateg We have described previously on this blog how Forum One approaches social media in general , as well as our experience with SlideShare and Scribd . Twitter is impossible to ignore. It has been embraced by celebrities ( Britney

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 a blog,

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. (This Bringing democracy and policy deliberations directly to the people by requiring his Cabinet officials to have periodic national online town hall meetings to answer questions and discuss issues before their agencies. There will be a lot of interesting This gets us at Forum One pretty jazzed - we've been evangelizing a long while about using online services to expand public access to information, enable new forms of collaboration, and build online communities.) The

Events and Discussion Boards: Invite and Discuss Discussion boards - have the power to develop a lively and interactive community around your page. If possible keep a dedicated admin for discussion board. Tips facebook for non-profits facebook pages Non-profit social media strateg Following is a guest post by Rajeev Edmonds from New Delhi, who publishes a blog called Mintblogger (I highly recommend subscribing if you haven’t already). Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most popular social media services used by individuals, businesses