Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. Paul Baker, Webitects; Kara Carell, 501 Tech Club Chicago/Interfaith Youth Core; Todd McMeen, CitizenPowered.org. What are the specific social networking sites in Chicago? How much time does it take? I'm live blogging this panel from the Making Media Connections Conference . All live blogging disclaimers apply.

I should be in Chicago at the pre-conference sessions and the reception for BlogHer Contributing Editors right now. Hopefully, I will arrive just in time for my panel session, although I hope I won't be too over caffeinate But, all flights out of RI and Boston on United were cancelled due to the above Thunderstorms. I was lucky that I snagged a 6:00 AM flight out tommorrow morning.

We rarely get any face time. Chicago. Blogs, and our personal blogs, so she wanted to reach out and let you know that we'll be in Chicago the week after next and come say h Hanging with Britt Bravo at NetSquared Conference Photo by Schipulites For the past three years, I've had the pleasure of working closely with Britt Bravo at BlogHer and Netsquared .

Louis, and our second one in Baltimore, and more are forming all the time. Kris Prendergast just told me that the second meeting of the Chicago chapter formation group was attended by more than 100 people! I'm delighted to hear there's so much energy around social enterprise in my hometown (I grew up in the Chicago suburb I recently took on the role of chairing the Social Enterprise Alliance, the main grassroots group representing social enterprises in the U.S. and Canada.

It was great to catch up with my Chicago colleagues, Thom Clark, Gordon Mayer, and the rest of the crew at CMW.   Also, a wonderful opportunity to hang out with David Krumlauf, Judith Sol-Dyss, Steve Heye, Marc Van Bree, Kara Carroll, Michael Hoffman, and other fantastic Chicago peeps! local online news in Chicago commissioned by the The Chicago Community Trust .  Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the annual Community Media Workshop: Making Media Conference where I gave a keynote last year.   The big buzz at the conference was the release of " The

A great article was published today in the New York Times: The  Shedd Aquarium , in Chicago, uses a combination of on-site signs, end-of-aisle displays at local CVS stores with Coca-Cola as co-sponsor, and TV advertising. “We Every time we think  WE have a good idea, our clients one-up us! ...Tags: A Small Business Guide to Text-Message Marketing by by

It gave me an opportunity to think about how to retierate the content for a full-day workshop I'm doing in Chicago in June. like delegating the tasks to others in the room I know - like keep timing, take notes, share knowledge.  Mapping Metrics to Strategy View more presentations from kanter . Yesterday, I facilitated a session called Mapping Social Media to Strategy .  Here's the description: The session will share an overview of why the sequence listen, learn, and adapt is critical to implementing a successful social media strategy.

So, headed over to say hello and to hear about her masterclass "ROI of Relationships."  Over the weekend, SobCon was taking place in Chicago and I wish I could have been there - (next year, Lis, I promise)  KD Paine was there and follow her Tweets and KDPaine pointed me to her slide deck .   There's a lot of great stuff in this deck.  You're tracking relative increases and decreases to your influence over time and helps you refine Twitter strategies. Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise.  

Many people listen or watch podcasts on portable devices and at times that are most convenient to them. Think The University of Chicago Law School is a great example of instructions for listeners. If It will take time to script, record, and edit the audio, engage with listeners, and collaborate with contributors. Corey Pudhorodsky, 501c3Cast By now, podcasting should be considered an established medium. Yet, even after four years of general public awareness, there are still many misunderstandings about how podcasting can be used by individuals and organizations.

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." Length of time a document has existed. quot; My slides and resources are here . I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize