Last week I spoke on a couple of great panels at the Politics Online Conference about technology, social media and how Congress is trying to adapt to the ever-changing world wide web aka the “series of tubes&# as former Senator Ted Stevens so hilariously described it. All great questions! Agreed! The Twitter community likes to be engaged. MORE >>

Last week a study came out that said small to medium sized nonprofits were not gaining much from using social media. believe it, and here’s why: 1) Most nonprofits are still at the dabbling stage. 2) Many nonprofits just are not properly trained to utilize social media. Wrong. So wrong. Monitor your website traffic. During the Era of Web 1.0, MORE >>

For the past four years or so, at two different organizations, I've been evaluating Microsoft's Sharepoint 2007 as a Portal/Intranet/Business Process Management solution. If you get the way it uses lists and views to organize and display data, it can be a very powerful tool for managing and collaborating on all sorts of content. MORE >>

"Someone should create an iPhone app that allows you to donate $1.99 to a nonprofit," my husband said the other day over lunch. Most people are willing to spend $1.99 on an iPhone application, even if they aren't sure they'll like it, or use it. Seemed like a good idea to me so I started searching around for nonprofit-related iPhone apps. MORE >>

This is a follow-up to Creating a Social Networking Strategy (Part 0) that originally appeared on my Connections blog and also as a guest post on Beth Kanter's blog. One of the key takeaways from Part 0 is that once you stop just playing around with social media then you need to start putting together a strategy. MORE >>