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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

As we look to hire BIPOC designers and amplify their voices, we also have to examine our industry definition of what “good” design is and start building a completely new system—by everyone, for everyone. . Racism and equity are products of design, and if we want better, we must redesign the system.

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How to Better Choose the World's Most Innovative Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Every year Fast Company, a magazine and media enterprise with an "editorial focus on innovation in technology, ethonomics (ethical economics), leadership, and design" makes a list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. " What Does Nonprofit Innovation Really Mean? Improves communities in a scalable fashion.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

It was important that any sound we added would add to the experience of the black people profiled in this poem and not the white people that they were interacting with – that this was definitely a poem about the experience of black people out in nature and the dangers they face. Amy Costello: Thank you.

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23 Years Ago Today and How Not To Pitch A Blogger Redux (And Twitter pitches too)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

from Esquire Magazine's Awkward Wedding Photos . The original photo is on Flickr and caught the eye of an editor from Esquire Magazine who was looking for photos to illustrate a piece about wedding photos. Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases by Brian Solis. That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! by Todd Defren.

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Should CEOs and Executive Directors Use Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are definitely some benefits to having your executive director or CEO being present on social media channels. But it is also important to understand that there are definitely challenges to be overcome as well. This is a good example of a "Blended profile.". I think it depends. . Scott Harrison is the CEO of charity:water.

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Designing for Good: Pratima Mani + Josh Tabb

Connection Cafe

Smashing Magazine. However, getting good, quality pictures of the day-to-day work on the ground in Africa is a definite challenge. Do you have a designer or organization you’d like us to profile for #DesigningForGood ? Webby Awards. We have been lucky enough to work with an amazing photographer named Esther Havens.

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