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.

Last week an interesting new initiative was launched by the team at Social Actions – whose open source database of microphilanthropic opportunities from over 50 different non-profits I wrote about in April this year. For more information visit socialentrepreneurapi.org.

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?

Last week an interesting new initiative was launched by the team at Social Actions – whose open source database of microphilanthropic opportunities from over 50 different non-profits I wrote about in April this year. For more information visit socialentrepreneurapi.org.

The podcast will introduce our session at this year’s NTC called Diversifying Your Tech and Online Communications Teams and is meant to be a teaser to get you there. But, how diverse are your tech and online communications teams? And, do your teams’ demographics impact your advocacy success? This beautiful photo is by chrisjfry.

Online Community Fundraising was one of the big discussion topics over at the Dutch National Fundraising conference back in November, so it’s no surprise that since then I’ve noticed a growing number of new examples of fundraisers in Holland making use of social media to engage with supporters and their personal social networks online.

The people behind mega million dollar awards for innovative solutions to space travel, DNA research and fuel efficient cars are turning their sights on community health. community. There is some fuzziness in how much teams can spend on their project, but that work is not going to be funded by the competition.

Her post and all the comments are worth reading and considering carefully, but the most powerful words (IMHO) are contributed by Brian Reich: "To be successful today, you must focus on the content - the substance of what you do, and whether that provides something to the community, or audience, that is valued. That simply won’t work.

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. Tags: Online advocacy Online fundraising crowdfunding Community Fundraising 2.0

It’s a team sport. Pifworld Community Fundraising 2.0 Community fundraising Social networking Online fundraising Play It Forward Holland Nationale Vakdag Fondsenwerving crowdfunding PIF Web 2.0Sounds just like another Global Giving ? Project-wise, it looks like donors should have plenty to choose from too.