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The Latest from Social Media Bird Brain

Monday, December 28, 2009
image via United States Army Garrison Livorno I’m I’m m always sorry to see the end of the year because I love the feeling of the holiday season. I’m m not a Christian, but – as do most other faiths – mine encourages one to be kind to others, considerate and giving.
 
Sunday, November 15, 2009
know I definitely used to think that way - that success within the community was the whole definition of success for a nonprofit. So you've raised some good money and your attendees had a good time. Your nonprofit event is a success, right? Maybe.
 
Friday, September 25, 2009
The course was a program where I gave one day a month for about 9 months to learning about the way things worked in my new community. This is a plug. 'Cause Cause if you can't plug something you truly believe in once in a while, what's a blog for?Once Once upon a time, I took a course of study in leadership.
 

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Tags: small nonprofits Philanthropy Red Cross social media Online Communitie Juggling Animals via The Teacher's JournalI've been writing in the space and talking a lot outside of it about the need for small nonprofits to pay attention to social media.The reasons have been discussed at length in many places and some of the larger nonprofits such as the Red Cross are showing the way.I'll ll keep on evangelizing social media because the potential for return is very high ...Tags:
image via United States Army Garrison Livorno I’m I’m m always sorry to see the end of the year because I love the feeling of the holiday season. I’m m not a Christian, but – as do most other faiths – mine encourages one to be kind to others, considerate and giving.
Tags: social media marketing Online Communities nonprofit Image by melilab via FlickrObviously, I'm just getting started with this blog, that focuses on how small nonprofits can use social media, but there are a number of other social media blogs out there and not a small number are also interested in how SM can be used to the advantage of a nonprofit.Here are a few that I think anyone interested in social media for nonprofits should be paying attention ...Tags:
The most important thing about coming to the social media party is to connect with others by building community. epic fail social media Online Communities hypertex Image by @robynmcintyreIf you're new to social media, you're going to hear a lot from people about "maximizing your return" and using SEO, and lots of other stuff that won't make sense to you for some time. My advice?
Tags: social networking small nonprofits community innovation Twitter Social network nonprofit "Internet Trivia" image via ical wikiI had a phone conversations recently with a couple I've known since the 80s. They've never been great at staying in touch and I was struck by the difficulty we had in finding things to talk about. We could talk about our mutual past and we could

The Latest from the Nonprofit Marketing Community

Monday, February 8, 2010
So this only works if you’ve ramped up your marketing and community building to the extent that tons of people see you, know about you, read your e-newsletters, and donate to you already. $37 Million given in January 2010. Incredible. Incredible. Unbelievable.
 
Sunday, February 7, 2010
How: Individuals can sign-up to volunteer at participating community organizations in their area. It’s also customizable and has something for everyone as any person wanting to participate can type in their zip code and find volunteer opportunities in eight different categories: animals and environment, arts and culture, children and youth, community, education and technology, health and human services, hunger and homelessness, and seniors and elder care. Some have Lots has been said about Pepsi’s Refresh Everything Project. However, not as much has been said about
 
Sunday, February 7, 2010
In 2010, Guardian will award prizes to fifteen girls who demonstrate budding entrepreneurship, are taking the first steps toward financial independence, and make a difference in their schools and communities. To be eligible, a nominee must be between the ages of 12 and 18 as of December 31, 2009; be enrolled in middle school or high school; and be a U.S. From The Foundation Center... Deadline: February 26, 2010 Guardian Life Insurance Invites Entries for Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Award Program The
 

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The long tail concept comes to life in the hundreds of thousands of niche communities that are exploding on to the social media scene. discovered that when it comes to dishn' with your virtual girlfriends the communities are as diverse as well .. In addition to communities for moms, the focus ranges from cars to sports to business to age and status to cultural niches. Social networks .. they're not just MySpace, Facebook or even Twitter.
I have written and talked about the need to develop a global social marketing community and organization ( The Global Marketing Challenge ) that could be crafted around the following ideals: To continually improve the knowledge base and skill level of people who This digital community (social network) should weave together the strands of social marketing that now exist. who use social marketing in their professional activities to improve the the health and social conditions of people around the world. With the purpose of creating a set of experiences for program managers;
One of my favourite tools for instantaneously finding and interacting with a niche community is WeFollow . Here are the steps I would take to instantaneously be aware of all the latest happenings in that community: Call it “parkour community influencers”. I call this a tool because it is one of thousands of websites that leverage the Twitter database for a very specific purpose.
How can we entice more of them here? Our friends at Enterprise Community Partners (a nonprofit national leader in investment capital and development services for affordable housing and community revitalization) spent some time wondering, and a whole lot more time acting. Does this sound familiar? "Prior to 2008, we had no coordinated online plan. Online donations trickled in on their own."
Deadline: August 30, 2009 Tom's of Maine, "50 States for Good" Initiative Offers Program Funding for Nonprofits With a total community action fund of $100,000, Tom's of Maine's "50 States for Good" initiative is celebrating and rewarding nonprofits from across the country whose efforts are focused on lasting, positive change in the community. Tom's of Maine is hoping to inspire participation from nonprofits of all sizes and is excited to hear about the community projects that matter most to them.