The purpose of this post is to discuss a basic yearly budget that encompasses setup costs, labor costs and online services. Tags: Strategy 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. use NEXCESS.NET. They’re very cheap.

These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy! Before sitting down to work on your social media strategy, evaluate what kind of capacity you already have in your network.  Strategy. Goals & Objectives.

Nonprofits that have been using Facebook for a year or more consistently comment “OK… Facebook is great, but how can we take our Facebook Page strategy to the next level?&# Below are six advanced Facebook Page strategies in response to that question: 1) Create Customized Tabs. Tags: Facebook Online Fundraising

Last week at the InterAction Forum I had the pleasure of hearing Sam Graham-Felson , former director of blogging for the Obama Campaign talk about their strategy and success.  First, let me say that I was stunned to learn that overall the campaign raised $750 million dollars(!!), $500 million of which was raised online. Use the word ?please?

how can I be a community builder online? Others see it as specifically applying to online community spaces, like a social networking site.  Tags: community strategy communitybuilding online community organizing social networking My latest post is up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog.  Your Community.

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.  at ARC, listening has been the core value of our last three year’s of social media (mentioned online over 400 times a day), learn what people want and expect from us. Can’t wait!

Beth Kanter outlines on her blog a great framework for mapping out a social media strategy - summarized here: 1. Integrate (how to connect your various online efforts, and online+offline activities?). Tags: Strategy Identify Objectives (what you want to accomplish - stated as SMART objectives).

It's only been a few days since the end of 2008, but I wanted to share some very early online giving trends from Blackbaud clients. Steady Annual Growth Organizations had steady growth in their online giving through the first and second quarters of 2008. December and June were the two largest months for online giving.

We're doing some interesting work this week bringing the online dimension to a face-t0-face event. Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ). Tags: Strategy It's a three-day gathering of economists and development policy experts from almost every continent.

We think there is a whole class of such online projects which can provide a new generation of ?civic We think civic infrastructure for this online age needs to include open-source standards and software which provide a platform or framework for many to use, and which are licensed to allow others to extend and enhance the services.