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Social Trends for 2024

Media Cause

Trend 1: Authenticity is King One of the biggest online cultural shifts we’ve seen in recent years is a huge emphasis on authenticity. A Boston University student told Input that photo dumps are a “personal scrapbook,” saying, “posting what I want takes stress and pressure out of posting on social media.” Let’s get into it.

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How to Develop a (Small-Scale) Social Media Plan

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I enjoyed three hours of graduate students' presentations of social media plans for museums in the Pacific Northwest. It can be used internally by staff, or externally (as in the students' cases) as a consultant with a partner organization. Here is the process I offered them for developing and writing these plans.

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Creating Positive Change through Music: Interview with Christina Murray

Have Fun - Do Good

Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony. That school is amazing – it’s offering students the chance to be immersed in the Mi’maq culture and language for 7 hours a day.

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Personal Fundraising with Widgets: A Few Reflections and Campaign Update

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. Launch Announcements I decided not to broadcast this out to everyone I know. College students are excellent small-time fundraisers, and will often throw benefit parties.

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Chicago Symphony Social Media Strategy: What happens when people outside your organization set up a presence on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. A few months ago, I created a workshop called " Arts 2.0 In addition, we???ve

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. This isn’t just a change in youth culture. It’s a change that affects everyone.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership.

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