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What's the opportunity cost when a nonprofit blocks employees from using social network sites during work hours?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Wendy Harman, American Red Cross According to Wendy Harman, employees at the Red Cross were blocked from accessing social networking sites, like Facebook, from work. The $50,000 donation will contribute to a broader American Red Cross goal to raise $100 million for disaster relief. Tell us about your job?

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How Many Hours Per Week Should Your Nonprofit Invest in Social Media?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and is becoming increasingly integrated into the Social Web with every passing second. Flickr is the largest photo-sharing social networking community on the Web and should be your starting point for your online photo-sharing campaigns.

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

I don’t know if we’d have welcomed a male passenger we only knew through social networking. Or, more recently, how the native population in Avatar are connected to one another through a planetary-wide nervous system. Also, we were two women undertaking a long journey through some pretty uninhabited area.

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