On Wednesday the Washington Post dissed the Causes application on Facebook with a lazy, inaccurate article. There has been quite an uproar about the lazy article in the Washington Post about the Causes application on Facebook last Wednesday. Tags: Social Medi Last night, they dissed those of blogging about it, too! There A

But, I accept this description only as it applies to social media. Tags: Social Media Alfred Gramcombe Matt Bai Maureen Dowd Washington Pos I am a techtopian, or so I’ve heard from other people. Not all technology is beneficial to who we are and how we live. I’m not in love with huge databases and those who use them to catalog everything about me to market

This morning’s Washington Post article, “To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn’t So Green”, takes some not-very-new shots at Causes, the friending and fundraising app on Facebook, while not providing any new insights. Tags: Social Media beth kanter Causes facebook Frogloop Givvy network for goo From the first sentence, “It seems foolproof: nonprofits using the power of the Internet to raise money through a clever Facebook application. [...] ...Tags:

Tags: The New York Times Social Media Leonard Witt Steven Coll The New Yorker Jay Rosen Washington Post Book Revie Please don’t let the title of this post give you the impression that I disdain newspapers or journalists.  The journalists that I know are amazingly smart sponges of information and very diligent in their pursuit of interesting and informative stories.

triggered by a Washington Post article. 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, and restored the emotional connectedness of which one-way media robbed us. A couple of days ago I posted Social Net Fundraising - All Hype? The Post more or less said that Facebook was failing as a fundraising tool or venue.

Please join me today (September 16th, 9 am - 7 pm EDT) in a CDC-sponsored Web Dialogue on New Media in Health Marketing . Craig Lefebvre, PhD, Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University We'll be asking questions, offering ideas and answers in response to your questions and thoughts, and discussing issues related to blogs, social networks, and other types of social media, as they relate to health marketing (CDC's term for social marketing). I will be a panelist, along with: Ann Aikin, Health Communications, CDC/NCHM/DeHM

The Sunlight Foundation, always pushing the envelope on using social media tools to influence policy making in Washington, announced yesterday the launch of an effort to use Twitter to lobby individual Congress people to vote for In Tags: Social Media Twitter sunlight foundation Ethan Zuckerman Ellen Miller S. In an email received yesterday, Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director of Sunlight, wrote: Currently

The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Girl Scouts are engaging in a major restructuring to reverse the decline in membership that they, as well as other stalwarts of the 20th century nonprofit membership based organizations, like Boy Scouts [...] ...Tags: Tags: Frances Hesselbein Social Media LMK (Let Me Know) Washington Post Girls Scouts US The Girl Scouts USA announced a major restructuring yesterday — but, thankfully, the thin mints live on. The

What does this phenomenon, touted by Oprah, CNN, diverse Washington, D.C. Twitter is increasingly being used not just by early adopters and marketers, but by media (newspapers, magazines, Websites) and all sorts of brands from Starbucks, Samsung, and Coca-Cola, to Greenpeace, UNHCR, and hundreds of other nonprofits. Tags: Don't Miss these Posts DonorTrends communications fundraising innovation media usage mobile advocacy new media online activism online advocacy online fundraising online publishing On Friday, the White House signed on to Twitter (as well as Myspace and Facebook) - the latest high profile poster on the world’s fastest growing social network.

Even while media researcher Niesen is reporting that social nets and online video have transformed the web, the Washington Post is telling us that online fundraising via social nets is over-rated. Meanwhile, there are 87% more online social media users now than in 2003, with 883% more time devoted to those sites. The Washington Post, in an article focused exclusively Mercy me! What’s a poor blogger to do?