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American College of Preventive Medicine’s Annual Conference

Amy Sample Ward

Date : February 19th, 2011. Description : Social media tools allow for people to connect: broadcasting messages to real time communication, online networking to offline collaboration. Related Links : Conference website. Location : San Antonio, TX. Topic : Social Media in Disaster Response.

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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Just over one year ago, on February 18, 2011, Planned Parenthood Federation of America launched the largest integrated campaign in its history. Throughout SXSW, Brian Reich , ShiftCast host and information strategist, pulled together small groups of people for interesting conversations broadcast live and recorded as podcasts.

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11 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of your supporters are becoming overwhelmed with tweets, status updates, emails, texts, and print and broadcast media and because of that it’s getting more difficult for your “Thank You” message to stand out from all the noise. Since I have returned from Asia I have cut my consumption of broadcast news by 95%.

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Scary Security Stories to Tell in the Dark

Tech Soup

His Twitter account was used as a platform to broadcast hatespeech to his thousands of followers. In 2011, the group LulzSec hacked into PBS's website and posted an image of the spooky Nyan Cat as retaliation against the network's broadcast of a WikiLeaks documentary. His Google account was taken over and deleted.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge: Tools for Telling Your Story

Tech Soup

Finished video or photo stories created according to the challenge guidelines can be submitted at the challenge website. Pacific time, January 31, 2011. Melissa and Erika explained the process and equipment needed to shoot, produce, and broadcast a digital story — here's some of their advice from the webinar. read more.

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Improving Fundraising Asks: 5 Tips for Boosting Donations

Achieve

Broadcasting your marketing materials on several different platforms can ensure that your donors will see your message through at least one of the methods. . Email: Another excellent fundraising channel is email, which is an easy way for you to connect with donors and direct them to your website. John founded Snowball in 2011.

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2011 NTC Preview: Can Social Networks Create Social Capital?

NTEN

They may be able to broadcast the events of their day to one another but not ask a personal favor or base a decision on the advice of one another. Social contacts are more ethereal, less tangible -- almost hypothetical. These are people who have met but do not necessarily know one another. Many are connected only randomly.