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Monday, December 21, 2009
Chase embarked on the largest social media contest to date with the announcement of its Chase Community Giving initiative. But since Chase didn’t do it’s homework, is it doomed to be the gadfly at the social media party? Back in June, Caroline Dangson wrote about JetBlue’s use of social media to apologize for it’s mistakes. (She The contest was supposed to crowd source their philanthropy, allowing Facebook users to vote on which charities would receive their $5 million. But as Beth Kanter writes, they changed the rules mid-course.
 
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
After working for six months as the social media coordinator at Puget Sound Blood Center, I’ve learned valuable lessons about cultivating a base of social media volunteers. The social media community has an impressive commitment to volunteerism and nonprofit fundraising that . The Blood Center’s own social media volunteers send alerts via Twitter and Facebook during emergency blood shortages, Before recruiting your own social media volunteers, be sure to have the following tools: Twitter .
 
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I recently attended a local meeting of the Austin Social Media Breakfast Club where I had the pleasure of hearing John Moore talk about – or more accurately, test us on – the power of Word of Mouth Marketing from his years in leadership roles at companies such as Starbucks and Whole Foods. Based on the findings from research conducted by Keller Fay in June 2009 in the US, I thought John did a good job of testing our knowledge while also incorporating social media and word of mouth tactics into this talk, so I’ll do the same here in this post. To start, my first question – what is Word of Mouth (WOM) Marketing ?
 

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for your reading pleasure here's a list of titles of social media books scheduled to be release 2009 – 2010. The Digital Handshake: Seven Proven Strategies to Grow Your Business Using Social Media by Paul Chaney - Sept 22,2009 2. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod - June 11, 2009 4. Ta da .. 1.
Q&A Last month's Chronicle of Philanthropy-sponsored online chat ( transcript here ) on using social media to promote good causes was such an overwhelming success that we've scheduled a Part 2 for Tuesday, June 23rd at noon, eastern. This is your chance to have all your social media questions answered by me or my co-chatters, social media masterminds Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation and Wendy Harman of The American Red Cross. Join in here . But ASK RIGHT NOW , RIGHT HERE , if  you want your question answered.
After working for six months as the social media coordinator at Puget Sound Blood Center, I’ve learned valuable lessons about cultivating a base of social media volunteers. The social media community has an impressive commitment to volunteerism and nonprofit fundraising that . The Blood Center’s own social media volunteers send alerts via Twitter and Facebook during emergency blood shortages, Before recruiting your own social media volunteers, be sure to have the following tools: Twitter .
And, more importantly, these social media have unleashed a set of tools and resources that allow the people formerly known as the audience to create content for themselves and to tap into pools of collective wisdom. But blending social media tools and mobile technologies with social marketing to capitalize on and impact social networks is also an area for further exploration in achieving scalable results for networks of healthy people. Over the past decade there has been a dramatic shift in the emphasis of determinants of health and social behaviors from individuals to networks and communities.
eastern on Saturday, June 13. Tags: Nonprofit Communications Social Media Social Networkin Some call them vanity URLs, other Facebook user names but you can grab your organization's moniker starting starting at 12:01 a.m. At that point, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your personal profile (many folks have a personal profile that's work oriented or doubles as personal and professional) AND the Facebook Pages that you administer (only those established by May 31, 2009 and with 1,000 fans or more).
Mast expects that number to grow to 50 by June [ CNNMoney.com ]. From Information Week - Those companies who succeed as leading TV 2.0 So what will this mean for your audience's media habits ? Tags: Social Media Social Networks Television Widget Channe  The convergence of internet and television may have just happened. At the Consumer Electronics Show one of the BIG news items today are the demonstrations by several television manufacturers of their internet-enabled sets. ...in
Mashable has announced a giving campaign that runs from June 1st through August 28th of this year to raise money for four terrific causes; The Humane Society, Oxfam, World Wildlife Fund and LiveStrong. It Tags: Social Media america's giving challenge Mashable Summer of Social Good The Case Foundatio It will be very intersting to see how this effort unfolds.
Learn more by participating in tomorrow's (Tuesday, June 2nd, noon eastern) free online discussion . If you can't make it, download the cliff notes version for must dos, don't dos and what we dids from Danielle and Felicia and Red Cross social media maven Wendy Harman. Tags: Branding and Messages Case Studies Nonprofit Communications Social Media Social Networkin Here's the deal...In In
Google introduced Checkout in June 2006 and has been trying to hasten its adoption by retailers, and now nonprofits, with aggressive money-saving promotions. Tags: PR strategies News media analysi By Chantal Todé DM News Visitors to a nonprofit’s YouTube channel as described in the article above will also be able to make donations using Google Checkout for Non-Profits. Google Inc.,
and Social Networking news - launched Summer for Social Good - an all social media charitable giv ing campaign to benefit 4 charities. According to the release, "the Summer for Social Good is the first large scale online charitable campaign to raise funds strictly online through the power of Social Media and the Internet over an extended period. The goal is to use the power of “Social Influence” via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Last week, Mashable - a leading tech blog focused on Web 2.0 From June 1 - August 28 Mashable and others will promote the campaign via their