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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

Museum 2.0

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. A first-person voice is best.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 If your nonprofit is launching a new program or campaign, definitely write a blog post to share the news and summarize the new program or campaign’s goals. A first-person voice is best. Allow Guest Bloggers to Post Commentary and Share Their Expertise.

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Learning from Failure: Building Online Communities

Tech Soup

Building (and Failing) an Ambassador Program. Ambassador program, it's important to distinguish these boundaries and levels of commitment. The first problem she encountered was that the ambassadors she recruited had varying expectations of the program. Ambassador program. Let your guest bloggers be inspired.

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander. darfur genocide rwanda bloggers

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Five Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Hire a Social Media Manager

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blogger, LinkedIn and Myspace launched in 2003, and yet nine years into the Social Web the vast majority of nonprofits have not invested any financial resources at all into graphic design for their social media campaigns. It’s the number one, first-voiced complaint in every webinar and social media training that I give.