Perhaps the most influential gift of the Baby-Boomer Generation is the consciousness we all have of our own generations, be they the Quiet Generation, Generation X, Y, or Millennial. The language of generations and of the ways they communicate have become a part of everyone’s lexicon (Baby Boomers using ‘twitter’ as a verb, for example). […]
#SocialNetworks: Divying Up The Duties Of Social Media In Your Organization
Every company has its own time and budget windows to complete its projects. And developing the social-media ‘face’ of an organization requires both time and a budget. The good folks at EngageYourCause.com, who we featured yesterday, encourage the establishment of a ‘listening post’ first-and-foremost. The listening post creates an online window to pursue research on […]
#Fundraising: The Engage Group – 10 Best Practices For Online Fundraising
From time to time we enjoy highlighting the efforts of our professional peers as they bring great ideas in marketing or design or communication to the general public. Today we look at a recent publication by The Project Management Group, who specialize in email and direct mail campaigns. They have e-published a PDF entitled “10 […]
Crowdsourcing Platforms Designed For The Mission-Based Community (Part II)
We continue our introduction into some of the ‘crowdsourcing’ websites and applications that have been developed to links not-for-profits and mission-based organizations with their ever-connected constituents and benefactors. The list presented here yesterday and today is hardly exhaustive, but we believe we have touched upon some of the significant types of websites for various sectors […]
#Fundraising: Crowdsourcing Platforms Designed For The Mission-Based Community (Part I)
“Crowdsourcing” is the buzzword of the moment (though coined in the ancient world of technology back in 2006) and pertains to making an open appeal or project to a community and having those connected to that community take on the appeal or project and running it amongst themselves. It assumes the existence of a community […]
Fourteen Nonprofits Worth Following/Emulating on Twitter
The good folks at Socialbrite.org have recently posted a list of what they consider to be a ‘Top-Twelve List’ of social organizations and nonprofits that we all should follow on Twitter. The introduction gives you links to Twitter and how to become a ‘Follower’ of these organizations. It also includes links to individuals who might […]
Net Neutrality Debate Gets The Treatment
Sometimes serendipity meets synchronicity on anyone’s social-network radar, and a few different views of the same issue materialize before our very eyes. We had a moment of such pleasure today as we were directed to an infographic entitled “15 Facts About Net Neutrality.” Over the last couple of weeks we have posted a number of […]
Social Media Is Being Driven By And Toward Women
A recent post by Pam Dyer at SocialMediaToday.com concerned a survey and infographic by Ethan Block at Flowtown.com that demonstrated the many ways women are involved in social media. The evidence shows that over half of all adult women use social media at least once a week, and they use it to gather information on […]