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 Media Last night, they dissed those of blogging about it, too!

But, I accept this description only as it applies to social media. Tags: Social Media Alfred Gramcombe Matt Bai Maureen Dowd Washington Post 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.

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.

Expo in Washington D.C. This was the first social media/web 2.0 Same applies to the Washington Convention Centre staff, who were A+ all the way. I’m also not including all the great discussions I had and people I met during the social elements of this event as that would take up the bulk of this post. last week.

I often get asked about the difference between health communication, or health education, and social marketing. The first thing is that a social marketer does not feel like a fish out of water – even when perhaps he should. The field of education reform is one area where I have not been involved nor seen much use of social marketing.

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The Washington Post had an article yesterday (registration may be required to read it) that made the same mistake nonprofit marketing folks often make when judging the relative value of Facebook: it simply looked at Facebook as a place you post a cause and expect the dollars to roll in. I’ve heard fundraisers say the same thing.

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 [.].

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 good

Social marketing provides a strategic framework, a management process and a toolbox to more effectively address public health, environment, health care, education and other social issues faced by contemporary societies. The 19th Annual Social Marketing in Public Health Conference in Clearwater Beach, FL, USA, 17-20 June 2009.