M+R Strategic Services just released a report outlining the strategies and best practices from the Obama new media campaign and how those practices should be applied to nonprofits and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. Here’s the lead in paragraph: The best news for nonprofits? obama campaign, online marketing.

Just to keep you up to date on the nonprofit sector, here are a few news pieces that we wanted to share with you. President Obama spoke, yesterday, to the press, at the White House, about the nonprofit sector, federal funding, and what the private sector can do to assist the nonprofit sector, today.

With the holidays quickly behind us, many are looking forward to the next one: The Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. Changeblogging: NP, activism, social change + Jan 20 2009 historical news Barack Obama witness history Inauguration road trip social event chance of a lifetime President event opportunity current events

In it, President Obama’s digital strategist, Thomas Gensemer, called email newsletters “a waste of time.&#. Those regular articles and news stories could be repurposed for your organization’s blog and website. Tags: Fundraising Secrets charity fundraising news letters email fundraising 3. 250 words. c) Marc A.

Very interesting that Barack Obama decided to announce his presidential exploratory committee via the web yesterday. That video, which features Obama speaking directly to the camera in a home setting, has been featured on major news sites and blogs around the world. If you have a narrow goal, e.g.,

I've continued to ponder the value of tweeting -- even as I do it -- but see clearly its unique value in getting news out of Iran (and organized protest going on the scene) when the more traditional lines (Internet, phone have been shut down). Here's a partial list of folks tweeting out of Iran right now (thanks to Alison Fine ).

With the spike in news (and usage of Twitter) increasing daily, seems to make sense. One of the NY Times 2008 Buzzwords. 2008 was a big and busy year, can you imagine having to choose just ONE word to describe it? Just ONE?!? Some of our favorite sources share what their “Words of the Year&# are below: *. Merriam-Webster : Bailout.

The Wall Street Journal 's inauguration-day edition has an interesting article about Emmett Beliveau, executive director of President Obama's inaugural committee and a former campaign advance man. Obama, and their collaboration began. Obama's as a community organizer, the pair focused more on the attendees. With Mr. Beliveau.

On the other side, a few months back when a US Airways plane made an emergency landing in the Hudson River, Twitter got out the news quicker than any official media and carried the first photo of the evacuation of the plane. By now, I'm sure you've all heard of the micro-bloggging platform, Twitter. But is it right for your organization?

The Pew Internet and American Life Project - a great source of information on all things Internet - says that “a record-breaking 46% of Americans used the Internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others.” know you’re not Obama. over $600 million in funds raised. Cheers!