Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

The time is ripe for the early adopters in the nonprofit sector to embrace m-Advocacy, otherwise known as mobile advocacy. Well-known e-advocacy vendors like Convio , Democracy in Action , and Blackbaud will likely also soon add mobile advocacy to their list of services as well. At least I hope so.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The tools I am currently using are Facebook, two Twitter accounts (one for National messaging via @PanCAN and one specifically for advocacy efforts via @Advocate4PanCAN), YouTube, LinkedIn, MySpace and Delicious. Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. They’re convening Barcamp-like unconferences called PubCamps all over the country, allowing local techies and citizen journalists to forge collaborative projects with NPR and PBS stations, both online and offline.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

Learn more about the way we did this at Convio’s 2010 Summit here. Don’t forget about the old school method of a clip board and a pen (people are more likely to look at, and eventually sign up on, something you hand to them so don’t keep the clip board flat on the table…).

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

Last summer I explored the distinction in an online piece that argued that communication is what transforms data into useful information, and that this communication process has been fundamentally altered by the latest wave of digital technology. This is well-addressed in a 2010 Economist cover story "Data, data everywhere."

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The Congressional Management Foundation just released their report, Communicating with Congress: Perceptions of Citizen Advocacy on Capitol Hill that surveyed 260 congressional staff in October of 2010 about their opinions and practices on constituent communications including email and social media. Advocacy Campaigns.

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