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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

Will you tier your fees for different sized organizations? Build your list of references and qualifications, even if that requires doing pro bono or heavily discounted work. When projects end, ask clients to write testimonials and agree to serve as references. Sign up for CharityChannel’s CONSULTANTS listserve: [link].

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. But social media has a way of ensuring that each crisis is different from the last, so if you’re prepared to handle a YouTube meltdown, you’ll probably get served with a FourSquare nightmare.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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All You Need To Know About Virtual Conferences

AccelEvents

The only difference is that these components will be hosted online. An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more. This content can be made available to your team and attendees for future reference. panel discussions.

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FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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Nonprofits Using Ning: An Interview with Community Media Workshop and Best Practices

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Also, approximately 6% of visits to our main site is referred by visitors to our Ning. There was instant rapor.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. a different kind of teaching than the academic courses. Reference the source. Earlier this month, Janet sent me a note that she had completed her Ph.D.

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