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Sunday, March 21, 2010
For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. am ready to do big things, help people, and make some real strides this year. know my dreams are possible because of everyone else I met who is equally committed to those goals. Note from Beth:   Every now and then, I get asked when did you first discover the power of the social web?  I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird .)   I connected
 
Friday, March 19, 2010
The goal was to look at Safe Place's community, internally and externally, and offer a strategic starting point for this nonprofit's social media plan . Jill Foster blogs at Live Your Talk , on resources and stories to help professional women be excellent communicators through social media and public speech. It was a sunny SxSW Saturday last week where people came together for Zoetica Media 's brunch and brainstorm session -- with one nonprofit in mind: Safe Place . Community and a Strategic Starting Point
 
Thursday, March 18, 2010
But that hasn't deterred dedicated and passionate folks, younger people, in the nonprofit technology field to take to the social web and ask their friends for help. That's why I want to help Kara Carrell . I feel it is important to help encourage the next generation of nonprofit techies.     The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is to nonprofit techies what SXSW is to social media professionals.  Translation:  You have to go!
 

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I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009.  I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how There are some technical or graphic design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt I've how you want to be successful in 2009. 
These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy! Goals & Objectives Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization.  I have a guest post up on John Haydon’s blog !  You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. 
Tony Karrer has an interesting post on the issue of learning goals. He's noticed that there seem to be two types of goals: Directed Learning Goals – specific focus Flow Learning Goals – nonspecific, exploratory He goes on to argue that 1) people tend to fall into one of these two camps in terms of how they approach their own learning and 2) formal learning seems to more effectively support people with directed learning goals, while informal learning seems more for those with flow learning goals. Says Tony of informal learning: Unlike formal
In the midst of dinner she asked me a very interesting question, “When your goal is very long-term, how do you decide what to do today? It’s much better to take many small steps toward a goal, and let people see them happen, than to take a giant leap that happens behind closed doors. hope this helps you think about the knowledge work you’re doing every day. On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I had a chance to share a dinner with an amazingly productive and visionary friend who works in the social change field. What is your process for making choices about
well implemented blog with a solid strategy behind it can be an incredible tool to help you connect with supporters on the web. Let’s look at some goals, questions, strategy and tactics to get you starte A post by Chris Brogan on “ Strategic Blogging and Some Tactics to Nail It ” for business got me thinking about how nonprofits could benefit from a full fledged blogging strategy. A
Collaboration is a huge focus of mine: Finding ways for organizations working in the same sector to share calls to action to amplify the impact, helping organizaitons understand where their work aligns to cross pollinate across their networks, and so forth. How do we help organizations redefine their “community” to understand the entire ecosystem in which they operate? I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review and this is a special post because it’s actually a book review.  Hildy Gottlieb, a colleague (but really growing into a friend) sent me a copy
What are your goals? We all know that having  goals are Without goals you have no idea if your efforts are producing How to Create a Blogging Plan and Actually Reach Your Goals This Year  by ProBlogger and others) will help you solidify your goals overall strategy and the tactics are key to success. producing the desired result, no way to know if changes are needed, no way
The organization's goal is to makes it easy for people to find and I also remember when Peter Deitz launched the community discussion about his idea for Social Actions API back in January, 2008- he titled it " Help Me Clone Beth Kanter " as part of helping me with a Cambodian campaign was I working on at the time. He has identified nine goals for 2009 .  For the last 2.5 years, Peter has been working extremely hard to build Social Actions from scratch. 
No time, no budget, and no skilled resources available for your nonprofit to dive into web analytics and make sense of what the numbers mean for your goals and objectives? The Analysis Exchange wants to help — at no cost to your organization. ...( read more ) ...Tags: Tags: Non-profit technology General non-profit interest nptech Web 2.0
Do you have a budget that could include paying an outside vendor like See3 to help develop video -- or a limited budget that could only utilize Windows Moviemaker? This will help you understand where they spend time watching videos and their comfort level with different technologies. To meet those goals we needed to be able to count the number of shares and capture the information of people sharing. Jaime-Alexis Fowler, Pathfinder International It's It's no newsflash that video is -- in some ways -- king of social media visibility.