Had a great time yesterday teaching a social media immersion class to staff members of 25 nonprofit orgs in the Norfolk, VA region. Yet the group came together as an incredibly productive learning community around social media. During my intensive prep for the class, I had to do a lot of sifting -- through tons of resources, tools and, the greatest challenge, my own perspective and experience with nonprofit use of social media tools. The organizations these folks represented are varied in size, experience, issue focus and more. This palette of tools is way too new, and

The American Public Health Association seems to be in catch-up mode, and is now trying to quickly compile information about the use of social media by public health agencies and programs. These are just a few of the social media applications that are changing our world and redefining how we communicate information. To get a better idea of what this means for the public health and safety The announcement is below. Let them know what they have been missing! Blogs.

1-topic about social media marketing. You can pick it up as a podcast or listen on your computer. Today's Diva Marketing Talks explores how nonprofit organizations are using social media to not only tell their stories but to encourage donations to their causes, build community and expand their reach. Beth Kanter , prominent social media consultant and founder of BethKanter.org , and Alex Brown , visionary of AlexBrownRacing , will share their insights about the most effective social media tactics to the ROI of social media to Diva Marketing Talks is a live, internet radio show. 

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.

The surveyw as conducted in March, 2009, and 929 nonprofits responded representing a really good cross section of the sector by size and issue area. A Tags: Social Media NTEN Common Knowledge ThePort Nonprofit Social Network Survey Repor NTEN, Common Knowledge, and ThePort released the Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report.  A

On March 28, artists Lauri Apple and Seth Gershberg hosted a participatory performance piece titled Twitter Island at the nonprofit Chicago Art Department gallery. I've been interested in the psychological consequences of social media -- is it alienating/narcissism-enhancing/etc. -- for a few months, and wanted to do something artistic that involved an actual social media platform. For me, Twitter Island. No, it’s not a place in Second Life where everyone uses twitter. (Didn’t

It started on March 2 and will end on March 5. All you have to do is Tweet (Twitter's word for post) this phrase #apowerfulnoise before March 5 and NCF Fathom will donate 50 cents per tweet up to 10,000 tweets to CARE. (Quick Tags: new media creative online marketing contests and awards change Twitter online video leadership distributed marketin CARE is running a Tweet-a-Thon - a fundraising contest via Twitter . Here's the skinny...

Within two days of Maddie’s death, $30,000 was donated by these followers to a March of Dimes account one of them set up in the child’s name. think Kristi Faulkner nails it in her piece: "Social media is the uber-gathering space — better than a beauty shop, supermarket, diner, church, pub, firehouse, school, and town square rolled into one. Social media has turned a faceless audience back into individuals, A couple of days ago I posted Social Net Fundraising - All Hype? triggered by a Washington Post article.

Steve Braker of  Worthwhile Films | Nonprofit Media posted some do-it-yourself video tips on Facebook (you should be able to see it even without a Facebook account). On Tuesday, March 10, at Noon Eastern, the Chronicle of Philanthropy is hosting an online chat on how nonprofits can effectively use video . Enter it in the annual Nonprofit Video Awards by March 26!) I’ve seen lots of interest from nonprofits in using video to communicate with supporters about their causes, along with an equal amount of trepidation about how to do it. I’m not a video expert,

Women's Day (March 5th). Individuals (like me, and so many others already) were invited to include #apowerfulnoise in a tweet (a post on Twitter) anytime from March 2nd to March 5th. Jump on Twitter before COB March 5th to make a powerful noise; simply post an update including #apowerfulnoise. Then get thinking how you A powerful, imaginative coalition of organizations has formed to fight global poverty in honor of International Women's Day, in the A Powerful Noise campaign . Most interestingly, they've put a highly-viral micro-fundraising campaign on Twitter