Lighthouse"When talking about investment in social media, most people concentrate on the money aspect.Yes, it's cheap to get into social media in the sense that most platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) Tags: Facebook social media Lighthouse Online Communities Twitter Social network Blo "Pigeon Pt. don't charge for membership.

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

Tags: social networking volunteers Flickr social media Twitter nonprofit Image by Ed.ward via FlickrBig companies and big funders are slowly coming around to the idea of social media. Some small nonprofits have jumped on it, but plenty more aren't sure where to start and whether the effort would be worth it.Right now I'm working with two small nonprofits. One has a Marketing Director who is excited

Can't blame him - as I've discovered in the past few months, Twitter is both fun and useful.If you've been holding off on using Twitter or other social media for your ...Tags: Tags: Pew Research Center Sarah Perez Secret Service social media Twitter Social networ Image by m-c via FlickrI've learned that our new President is really digging in his heels on giving up his Blackberry or giving up on Tweeting, despite the concerns of both the Secret Service and the White House Counsel (lawyers).

FaceBook, in meetings, on Twitter, that's what I'm hearing from the small nonprofits. Tags: small nonprofits finances Facebook technology collaboration innovation Santa Cruz Twitter NextSpace nonprofit Image via UserVoice at NextSpace in Santa Cruz, CAJust a little while ago it was all about making every donated or grant dollar count. These days, it's more about making every penny count.On

Twitter is not for every association. For Apple Address Book, there is a useful utility called " A to G ". Create a new Gmail account and import your CSV file into the contacts. Open your Twitter account--make sure it uses a personal username, as Ben Martin suggests--and go to invite more . Twitter will find all of the accounts that are based on the contact e-mail in your Gmail account. In fact, before you even think about crossing into the Twitterverse, I suggest you make sure you won't be flying solo. So first, find out how many of your members are there

I’ve received several questions about the Twitter tools I use, so here are my five favorites. Yes, to use Twitter as efficiently as possible, you actually need to do more than what  Twitter.com offers! So this post here will automatically appear in my Twitter stream shortly after I publish it as “kivilm blogged on My Five Favorite Twitter Tools” with a shortened link to this post. 1. TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop

I took some advice from Rich Brooks at Flyte several months back and focused my efforts on three social media sites: Facebook , Linkedin and Twitter .  I’m active on all three now, but the one I got on to last is the one I’m spending the most time on these days: Twitter .  (You like Twitter for two reasons: You can check my most recent ”tweet” in the red box on the sidebar.  Click on the arrows to see previous tweets.)

Twitter Island. No, it’s not a place in Second Life where everyone uses twitter. (Didn’t On March 28, artists Lauri Apple and Seth Gershberg hosted a participatory performance piece titled Twitter Island at the nonprofit Chicago Art Department gallery. They invited 18 volunteers, mostly non-artists, to gather together in a room for 90 minutes and communicate only with each other, and only using twitter. Didn’t it seem like every place in Second Life was called Fill-in-the-Blank Island? I

Last week, Bob Farrace , director of publications for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, asked this Twitter question on the ASAE Technology Listserv. There are a bunch of associations with an official presence on Twitter. Having a large number of followers does not necessarily translate into success on Twitter, but for these groups, it's a good indication that they're doing something right. Are any associations out there maintaining an official association Twitterstream? I'm considering setting one up and I'm looking for some successful practices that will