Content curation: Best practices. View more presentations from Trafalgar Communications. Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for finding this deck). Dilbert characters are talking about content curation.     Scoop.It one of the premiere content creation tools is now out beta. Everyone can be a content curator! Robin gives us a great checklist of skills. MORE >>

End-of-year is a very busy time for fundraisers. Lots of ideas are bouncing around, campaigns that have been run for years are spinning up, and new end-of-year fundraising campaigns are coming to life. Many will eventually be pushed out the door with the hope of great results. free 50 minute webinar recording at bottom of post). Competition. MORE >>

Want to know which nonprofits are exceeding in social media ? So did we over at craigconnects. While a lot of nonprofits working on similar issues such as Animal Welfare and Veterans, have been doing social media for a while, we wondered if certain nonprofits issues areas were doing social media better than others. Children. Cultural. Environment. MORE >>

It does not matter if you choose to take to the streets, the #Occupy Movement has captured the imagination of everyone, and is not going away any time soon. The #Occupy prompt has firmly become an iconic directive that gives voice to a wide range of concerns: from corporate bastions, to conceptual ideals, to icons of popular culture. MORE >>

I’ve been reading Social Media Metrics Secrets by John Lovett who is a senior partner at Web Analytics Demystified where Eric T. Peterson is the founder and senior partner. The book is wonderful and before I share some of what I learned I have to tell you a story. He sent me an email. Click for larger image. And now on to the book. MORE >>