One of my favourite tools for instantaneously finding and interacting with a niche community is WeFollow . Here are the steps I would take to instantaneously be aware of all the latest happenings in that community: Call it “parkour community influencers”. I call this a tool because it is one of thousands of websites that leverage the Twitter database for a very specific purpose.

American University’s Center on Institute for Interactive Journalism released a terrific report this week on funding for new media projects. “New New Media Makers: A Toolkit for Innovators in Community Media and Grant Making” finds that at least 180 community, family and other foundations have contributed nearly $128 million in grants to news and information initiatives in [...] ...Tags: Tags: Social Media American University Center for Investigative Reporting Center for Public Integrity Institute for Interactive Journalism J-Lab Knight Foundation New Ameican Media New Media Maker

But at one, the social interactions are lackluster. Tags: social media marketing cultural marketing nonprofit marketing social networking facebook events tools community NPtech technology blogging arts marketing online arts culture blog Once, when I was representing social media on an arts marketing panel, a fellow panelist said to me, one-on-one, something along the lines of “ okay, but how does this sell tickets ?” I guess I didn’t get that point across!

We're both interested in technology and its evolution, and its effects on how people interact with each other.  How did the design of the project evolve? Tags: arts arts participation collaboration community cultural participation culture events NPtech online social media social networking technology tools twitte Twitter Island. No, it’s not a place in Second Life where everyone uses twitter. (Didn’t

Based around an interactive 3D globe through which visitors can view videos about projects requiring funding, it is described as combining “the gameplay of SimCity, where you are a developing your own world, with the excitement of Google Earth: hopping from one continent to another to see what’s going on over there” . Pifworld Community Fundraising 2.0 A month ago, one of the big discussion topics at the Nationale Vakdag Fondsenwerving conference in Holland was Online Social Network Fundraising so it was great just after the event to spot a new online initiative coming from Holland looking to capitalise on the supporter engagement opportunities now available through Web 2.0.

Partly because it is the latest of a number of innovative online community fundraising developments to recently come from the Netherlands, where the whole concept of online community fundraising has really taken off over the last 18 months or so . At the outset, in addition to the usual project search functionality we’re used to seeing, Pifworld’s project inventory is displayed on an interactive globe (shown above) that you can spin and zoom to see what they have available in any particular area of the world you might be interested in. Just a few weeks behind the originally planned launch date (which is pretty impressive for a development of this complexity) the online fundraising site formerly known as Play it Forward and now renamed Pifworld went live over the weekend.

Who would get excited about all of us together starting an online community where we promote each other’s online fundraising? Here are a couple of ideas that I’m thinking we could offer if together we decided to create this community. Ok, so I’m getting excited about a new idea. Would you be willing to commit to comment and vote for each other to win/raise money for your organization?

Can your nonprofit's supporters (volunteers, donors, community collaborators) or your agency's beneficiaries (clients, etc.) more donors, a more informed and connected community base, etc.). __ In a newsletter your organization can acknowledge and thank recent donors, it can inform current donors (who receive the newsletters) what work is being planned out that they may want to give donations for, specifically, and it offers local businesses advertising or sponsorship options. You may already think that you've fully tapped out all of the potential that a newsletter can do for your nonprofit.

The project evolved, then, from a purely conceptual piece into an interactive, collaborative performance piece, all carried out over the Internet. How does your project with twitter and Morse code relate to your larger body of work? Tags: cultural participation social media collaboration arts participation social networking membership twitter new audiences tools community NPtech museums online arts cultur I met An Xiao on twitter . I don’t remember if I followed An or if she followed me, but I’m sure it had something to do with the Brooklyn Museum .

Robin Broitman of Interactive Insights Group puts together a fantastic list of tools, some that search across micro-blogging platforms, and some that are more specific. (via This piece by Brad Stone in the New York Times gives an overview of Facebook’s growth -- including its recent 8-month doubling in size! -- and looks at the challenges the social network faces now that the community it built feels empowered. Search the Social Web Graphic Design for Regular People Raising Major Gifts with Social Media Facebook at 5  Ahhh, Friday. Maybe you have to work a performance