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Connected Generation: Youth Workers and Social Media

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this month, the Connected Generation conference brought lots of folks from organizations and direct services groups, as well as practitioners, educators, and researchers together in Bristol, UK, to talk about the use of social media in youth work. Tags: events presentation cgen10 community storytelling youth. Discussion.

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Net2 Think Tank Round-Up: User Generated Content

Amy Sample Ward

This month’s Net2 Think Tank topic focused on user generated content. Can User Generated Content Create Unique Community Opportunities? Ana at JelloBrain has a terrific post discussing the relationship between user generated content and the organizations and infastructure on which that content is posted.

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Presentation: Social Media & Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

This morning I had the great opportunity to present to the Next Generation Philanthropy course, a part of Institute for Philanthropy, here in London. Hint: click through to view the slides on SlideShare.net to see speaking notes.). Tags: presentation foundations philanthropy social by social social media.

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The State of iPhone Fundraising Apps :: Three Examples

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now almost 4 months later the first generation of iPhone Fundraising Apps are hitting the iPhone App Store. Hint, Hint. Tags: Micro Fundraising Mobile Fundraising Mobile Technology Mobile Websites Smartphone Apps iPhone Apps Smartphones Apps. That is an App I would use. PayPal mobile pages are coming.

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10 Mistakes Your Nonprofit Is Making On Social Media

Achieve

Hint: A great time to do this is when you are creating your annual budget and marketing plan. Hint: I typically recommend posting 3-4x per week per channel as a starting point. Exp: news articles, user generated content, etc.) . Exp: tagging sponsors, creating Facebook events with co-hosts, etc.) . Share impact stories.

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NpTech Tag Cross Blog Discussion: What do those guidelines look like?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. The new generation of social web sites coming online are only beginning to understand how to organize and present this content to users. How are they different from taxonomies? But give it time.

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Experimenting with Facebook Landing Pages

NTEN

There are many options for creating the code, but no matter what, you may have to make some adjustments as not all HTML tags are usable in Facebook. Here, Facebook outlines the allowed tags – I found that I only had to cut the HTML and BODY tags, and our invitation worked just fine.