Since meeting Jason, we've stayed in touch through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Imagine my excitement when he sent out a twitter message about creating a Facebook communications plan... Not only is NCFR using Facebook, they are committed enough to create a whole communications plan around it! So I've asked Jason to report on the NCFR's progress on Facebook. Q: So, Jason...did Have you filled out the Social Tech Survey for associations yet? Even if you haven't taken on any social media initiatives yet, but plan to start something in the next 6 months or

Causes was without doubt a trend-setter from the outset, being one of the very first apps to be launched after the Facebook Platform toolkit was made available – enabling the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data. (Remember Despite being one of the most popular Apps on Facebook, boasting some 12m registered users, over its first 12 months it had raised just $2.5m – equating to just $126 for each organisation being fundraised for. Great news from the folks behind ‘Causes’ last week, with the announcement that they just passed the $10m point in donations since launch back in May 2007 .

Facebook users can download an application that automatically updates their status an associated Twitter account is updated. You could try to get in touch with everyone you know and probably not end up talking to anyone, or, with 140 characters you can update your Twitter account, (and Facebook), and with just 140 characters your friends and family will know that you are on 1) alive and healthy 2) having a great time 3)learning loads 4) can't wait to tell them more about it. (pic from Twitter.com) One thing I have learned over the past few years, is even if you areI am not interested in using something personally, as a marketing professional it is my responsibility to understand it and try to figure out how my organization or my clients could use it.

If you moan to 10 of your nonprofit colleagues about how you don’t have time to get your nonprofit on Facebook and other social media sites, I’d guess seven of them will tell you to get an intern to do it for you. (The Make it a team effort, led by the intern. The team approach also gives your intern valuable project and team management The other three? Two will just nod sympathetically and the other one will have no idea what you are talking about.)

Causes was without doubt a trend-setter from the outset, being one of the very first apps to be launched after the Facebook Platform toolkit was made available – enabling the development of 3rd party Applications (Apps) that integrate directly with Facebook user data. (Remember Despite being one of the most popular Apps on Facebook, boasting some 12m registered users, over its first 12 months it had raised just $2.5m – equating to just $126 for each organisation being fundraised for. Great news from the folks behind ‘Causes’ last week, with the announcement that they just passed the $10m point in donations since launch back in May 2007 .

Facebook. Many have described Facebook as a great “bulletin board” but that’s about it. How do you think we should represent ourselves on Facebook? Just about everyone on my team will be twittering now @holtmurray   @ashleyzolenski @jessicaorndorff @joannamacdonald   @kaylarogers . Thanks to everyone who commented on my post Help Me Convince My Boss To Use Social Media . Not only did you offer some great support and tips, but the 24 comments I got were real evidence that social media really does work!

The clearer you are, the more likely it is that your org will make an impact with these tools  -- whether you're just monitoring conversation about your org via Google Alerts, have a two-pronged approach with Facebook fan and cause pages or are experimenting on several fronts. Ensures your team is in sync with each other, rather than working (usually unknowingly) at cross purposes. Social media is a free-flowing, wide-open phenomenon that needs to be handled and handled well. So frame its use for your staff, volunteers and base.

The survey was triggered by our desire to get a sense of how fundraisers planned to fit social media (Facebook etc) into their marketing mix over the next twelve months. So I asked myself … if I ran a nonprofit and my fundraising team came in tomorrow proposing to invest a chunk of our fundraising capital in a social media effort (or any other new fundraising approach), how would I respond? The Yesterday we reported our Agitator survey results on current nonprofit fundraising priorities. We weren’t surprised by the results — major gift fundraising and and

In Part I of this two-part post on social media (SM), I briefly covered the key features of Facebook and Twitter, and I gave some examples of their uses. Emphasis on “professional” and “business-oriented”, which distinguishes it from Facebook and Twitter which are more mixed in focus. Similar to Facebook, you have to invite someone to “link” with you and they have to accept your link Today, I want to provide another great example of a business use of TWitter, briefly review LinkedIn, and end with our recommendations and references of how businesses should and do use SM tools to achieve their goals.

they're not just MySpace, Facebook or even Twitter. Wowowow - site for women founded by a team of celebrity friends Joni Evans, Liz Smith. Social networks .. The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. A soon-to-be-talked about new venture sent me on quest to explore what was happening with women and social