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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " The US will use Twitter and Facebook to issue terror alerts – "The U.S. org inspired him in ways he never imagined."

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Twitter and Nonprofits April 10, 2008 This actually was a post to the Progressive Exchange discussion list. I love twitter, which in some ways surprises me, and in some ways doesn’t. Sure, why not.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page. Please share them with us on Twitter with the hashtag #WhaledIt! We love how they showed the lineage of that $25.1

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Please Help: Volunteers Needed To Help With Hurricane Wiki To Prep for Hurricane Ida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, we need to identify useful Twitter accounts so I can begin aggregating them using the new Twitter Lists feature. If you come across any useful Twitter accounts related to Ida - local news accounts, weather spotters, volunteers, local orgs, etc - please add them to the wiki here: [link].

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

org before? Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. org and 1Sky to lead by merging. Have people heard of 350.org

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). How do you involve the org? Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. Have you seen examples of your org changing? listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results.

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Live blogging from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit: The Generational Divide (Panel Discussion)

Amy Sample Ward

The Red Cross has been around for 130 years and so much has changed – for example with text-to-give after disasters. What we saw was that by 9 pm on January 12th we were able to launch the program and for the next thee days people only found out about it from Twitter and facebook and so many shared it.