The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. discovered that when it comes to dishn' with your virtual girlfriends the communities are as diverse as well. Ask Patty - Jody DeVere created the first community to help women learn about cars.

This digital community (social network) should weave together the strands of social marketing that now exist. An equally important, and ambitious, step is to attract programs and people to get involved in the community - to stake their claim to becoming part of a social marketing community.

Deadline: August 30, 2009 Tom's of Maine, "50 States for Good" Initiative Offers Program Funding for Nonprofits With a total community action fund of $100,000, Tom's of Maine's "50 States for Good" initiative is celebrating and rewarding nonprofits from across the country whose efforts are focused on lasting, positive change in the community.

In her new book, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause , Kivi Leroux Miller asserts that in the "Connected Age" marketers have to learn to become community managers vs. But the real question is, HOW do you become a community manager and/or how do you find the right person for the job?

One of my favourite tools for instantaneously finding and interacting with a niche community is WeFollow. Call it “parkour community influencers&#. Tags: Advice Insight Tip community influencers long tail niche parkour target audience tweetdeck twitter wefollow Go to WeFollow.com. It will auto populate if it exists.

Former Talk Show Host Jenny Jones Announces Continuation of Community Grant Program Deadline: Open Talk show host and philanthropist Jenny Jones has announced that she will donate an additional $1 million to continue her Jenny's Heroes ( [link] ) community grant program. Tags: community building RFP community grants

Our friends at Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering, and a whole lot more time acting. Does this sound familiar? quot;Prior to 2008, we had no coordinated online plan.

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But nonprofit arts organizations, are community-supported organizations. Tags: board fundraising philanthropy CSA nonprofit community theater business model I really love this idea, which producing artistic director Jon Stancato presents as a new business strategy for nonprofit theaters, but I don't see it as a new business model.

In Seattle KEXP 90.3FM is now accepting applications for the 2009 Community Partnerships program which promotes one Seattle area non-profit each month. Contact Melissa Collett, the KEXP Community Outreach volunteer at melissa at kexp dot org, or read [link] org/about/ partnership. Tags: RFP community grants KEXP.org.