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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. That’s not acceptable in the 21st Century.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Picassa) Two examples of the above tools working for nonprofits include a remarkable Twitter success story from Free The Kids and the creative use of social sharing in Pathfinder's Girl2Woman.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

Youtube and facebook are just the new tools for political change. They work like memes, the speed people react and join in. Communication technologies have always been used for political change, especially with Iran. 1905-1911, people were publishing in exile, printing and sharing over the boarder, etc. It’s about scale.

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