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Hype vs. Reality: What digital channels are the most effective in 2010?

Care2

There is a lot of hype around new digital channels, but little evidence is published to back this up. A common strategy is to recruit and mobilise large number of people to put public pressure on a person, government of company. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?"

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Government 2.0 and the web - what works, what doesn't, and why

Forum One

We are excited about the upcoming June 4 event, " Beyond the Hype: Government 2.0 for Decision Makers ," where we will hear from a great lineup of speakers about innovative ways government agencies are using the web. Click here to register.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#. As Sami Ben Gharbia so eloquently noted on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan program last week, these networks have existed for a long time.

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Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Panelist: Dan Willis, Consultant for Sapient 3. Panelist: Tara Hunt, Intuit 7.

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The Math Is Starting to Add Up: The Promise of Mobile

NTEN

At the Millennium Villages Project, with the help of groups like Inveneo, we’ve been able to take advantage of the advent of low cost and low power computers, long range wifi-networks and, increasingly, GSM-based data to deliver ICT services in a much more affordable way. Achieving limited scale, chasing sustainability .

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. immersive social space camp as. t think I???ve

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.