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The Buddy System: Going Social with Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

The best WordPress bloggers, site owners and administrators know that one of the keys to having a fantastic and wildly successful web page is to integrate everything you post and promote with some sort of social media component. If your site takes the style of a magazine or news outlet, check out Cool Stuff.

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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Via BBC News Magazine : . But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. The mainstream media and higher education essentially flipped out over the “dangers of social networking,” and Myspace took the brunt of it. Watch Video.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. Absolutely not! Craziness!

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Second, search engines are consistently searching the web to index fresh content. The first blogging platform, Blogger , launched in 1999 and it signaled the birth of the Social Web. At the time, it was a completely new concept whereas today our daily internet experience is one based on social commentary and feedback.

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Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web

AFP Blog

Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web: "Social networks as we know them—MySpace, Facebook, Twitter—each keep identity and personal relationships separate from one another.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools.

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22 Ways Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes for Fundraising and Awareness Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. The person scanning is then sent either to a mobile Web browser to view the link inside the QR Code, sent a text message, or prompted to dial a phone number. So, what are they? QR Codes are ideal for location-based communications and fundraising campaigns.

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