Last March I was on a blogging panel for an event put on by the Alliance of Technology and Women. To prepare for the panel, I wrote up 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs. Next week, I will be participating in a session entitled, "Reach Out and Blog Someone" along with Steve Swenson of the Bakersfield Californian at the United Way of Kern County's Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits . You can read Steve's blog at the Eye of Bakersfield . A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise

Welcome to the June 2009 edition of the NonProfit Blog Carnival, a monthly showcase of great blog posts for and about nonprofits. The 10 articles highlighted here were chosen to give a variety of viewpoints and usable information on Nonprofit Technology....( Tags: Non-profit technology nptech social media nonprofit blog carniva read more ) ...Tags:

Hat tip to Sonny Cloward for suggesting that nonprofits should have a Maslow’s hierarchy of needs  when it came to implementing nonprofit technology. It It was in response to Tweets I made last month stating that social media has been oversold to nonprofits and that they really needed to concentrate on their Web site first .  I’m However, it’s high time that a Maslovian I’m going to circle back to my thinking on social media in the second part of this article.  However, Think of this as a hierarchy of things your nonprofit should probably

During Blackbaud's 2009 Conference for Nonprofits , Melanie Mathos and I lead a two-part social media workshop. Part I of this pairing was a new session we developed called 50 Social Media Tactics Nonprofits Use to Meet Their Mission . The idea behind the session was to provide tactics and tools nonprofits can use to meet their social media objectives. It was a real blast delivering this content, and people seemed to react well to it. The presentation is full of examples that can easily (and sometimes not so easily) be implemented once you have a social media

Hat tip to Sonny Cloward for suggesting that nonprofits should have a Maslow’s hierarchy of needs  when it came to implementing nonprofit technology. It It was in response to Tweets I made last month stating that social media has been oversold to nonprofits and that they really needed to concentrate on their Web site first .  I’m However, it’s high time that a Maslovian UPDATE: This is now a four-part series instead of two. The next installment will appear on 2/18/2009.

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. Let’s get down to my top 10 list of things every nonprofit should know about social media and online communications. From grassroots advocacy staffers to Hill staffers and PR folks, the same questions arose during each panel session – what are the top social media tools we should be using to spread our message and how do we effectively use social media.

I had been looking forward to Clay Shirky 's plenary at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference for a while, and he did not let me down. quot; "Tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring." Tags: Social Web Internet Nonprofits Technology NTEN Clay Shirky 09NTC Online Communities Community Whuffi Keeping in theme with his almost dead-on resemblance to Tom Hanks, his words/message/thoughts resonated around the room like Forest Gump on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Had the WiFi in the room not gone down,

This is the second part of  Build A Nonprofit’s Technology Assets From The Ground Up, Part 1 OF 2 . In this post, I talk about the website tiers of the Maslovian hierarchy of nonprofit technology needs for the small nonprofit. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, this article about a nonprofit website is so long that I’ve decided to expand the series to one long posting for each of the website, CRM and social media layers in the pyramid. And that’s why this series is now four parts long and not two.  Website

A few months ago YouTube announced that organizations that are in the YouTube Nonprofit Program would be able to use the overlay advertising feature to create donation links. At the Nonprofit Technology Conference in March while I was conducting a session about online video distribution, I mentioned to Steve Grove and Ramya Ragahvan—who runs the YouTube Nonprofit Program—that while this feature is nice, it is really limiting. They call the feature “Call To Action” and said that in their first test of this, Charity:Water raised $10,000 in one day .

Most check-ins revolve around restaurants and cafes, but below are five simple ways you (and the nonprofit techies) can also use FourSquare to promote the nonprofits and causes your care about: 1) Add Nonprofit Venues Adding a Nonprofit Venue on FourSquare just takes a few minutes, but it’s crucial that you do it right the first time. FourSquare is definitely starting to catch on with enterprising techie folks that love to be early adopters. That’s a good a sign.