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Social Search: Elegantly Simple and Easy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting a query about various conferences people attended on some peer listservs, I got only one reply with four more leads -- two of which I had discovered via cha cha guide and search engine by digging deeper into the leads provided. One trick you can do is search by combination of tags by adding the "+" between tags.

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How I Used LinkedIn For the Final Leg of My Social Search Action Research Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. What thinking shifts are needed to make your social search more successful? Is it worth it to integrate social search into your practice? I've been doing a small research project.

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NpTech Tag: Change.org To Launch White-Label Social Network for Nonprofits, GeekToys that Give Geekbumps, and Blog Readability

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. leading to an impassioned request for best practices for minimizing damage when this security breaches occur on several listservs. SEO/SMO Grassroots.Org has a general primer on Search Engine Optimization for Nonprofits, although some of the information in the linkbuilding section is circa 1999.

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Ten Ways Small NGOs Can Collaborate

NTEN

Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Search LinkedIn and Google groups. Share your technology experiences and frustrations. Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Finding the Best People: Strategies for Effective IT Hiring

NTEN

Note: Cassie is the co-author of the chapter on "Finding and Keeping the Right People" in our forthcoming book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.]. The first step in ensuring effective hiring of technology staff is to engage in a comprehensive needs assessment. Needs Assessment.

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Marnie Webb On Nonprofit Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week I wanted to get a bird's eye view of nonprofit blogging from a nonprofit technology assistance provider (people who work with nonprofits on technology/capacity building issues). They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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A. Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Who does it well?