Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship.  Plus, the person took the time to get to know me over time before asking me for anything.  If your pitch also has a request to retweet, include a copy of cut and paste examples.  

Many institutions that are pursuing online/onsite experience connections have lighted on the personal webpage as THE way to deliver post-visit experiences. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. These pages often look barren.

The session I've been percolating, though, is the one on personal branding which was a debate of sorts (though they both seemed to agree on everything) between Aaron Brazell ( @technosailor ) and Amber Naslund ( @Ambercadabra ). Aaron also posted a follow-up blog post which summarizes his view on the issue of personal branding.

They are like broad, topical, personalized blogsearch with good spam control. 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. Real-Time Relationships (And Up-selling ). Search.

For nonprofits, that means moving from the transactional to the constant relationships.  As we discovered last week from looking at movement building , relationship building skills are really important.  what does this type of relationship building look like in the weeds?  Period. That is what they crave and appreciate the most.

If you want visitors to share stories or personal expression in your institution, you need to respect them as individuals who have something of value to contribute. I'm talking about personal profiles. Asserting personal identity with respect to an institution is something we do daily in other environments. Not so at museums.

I’ll have follow up posts on specific examples of this integration using open source tools (on one end or the other, or both.) I’m assembling a panel now and need some good case studies, so if you’ve got examples, please email me. What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate? All-in-one.

Although my Facebook Page has a good number of fans, I have over 2300 friends on my personal Profile that share my love for birdwatching. For example, when my Facebook friends travel Peru, my  birdwatching tour business is foremost in their mind because of the personal relationship we’ve created on Facebook. Listen!

rdquo; My gut tells me that while nonprofits are getting a decent junk of change using this channel, we’re not doing all we could to turn that small, spontaneous gift into a relationship? Personally, I think this is a lost opportunity to start a relationship. Author: Tad Druart. saw 2 out of 3 people in front of me donate.

Whatever your relationship, troubled or otherwise, email is and continues to be one of the world’s few, new, great things. They are designed to be “personal.&# It’s all about one-to-one personal communications, only it’s one-to-one with thousands or hundreds of thousands, of people. Leave them on. Ready?